Mahatma Gandhi's thoughts - A Compilation

 Mahatma Gandhi - “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world — that is the myth of the atomic age — as in being able to remake ourselves.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Good government is no substitute for self-government.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “The golden rule of conduct ... is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall always see Truth in fragment and from different points of vision.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “God comes to the hungry in the form of food.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “To put up with... distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may — this is the... gift of leadership.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “The good man is the friend of all living things.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Where there is fear, there is no religion.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Fear has its use but cowardice has none.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “In the march toward Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with dirty feet.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Be the change you want to see in the world.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.”

 Shrimati Indira Gandhi - “Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall.... Freedom and slavery are mental states.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “On Western civilization: 'I think it would be a good idea.'”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered, and conducted wars, war criminals? War criminals are not confined to the Axis Powers alone. Roosevelt and Churchill are no less war criminals than Hitler and Mussolini.... England, America and Russia have all of them got their hands dyed more or less red — not merely Germany and Japan.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Truth and nonviolence are no cloistered virtues but are applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market-place.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “There is no god higher than truth.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Truth never damages a cause that is just.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall — think of it, ALWAYS.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “The 7 Deadly Sins are: Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Knowledge without character Business without morality Science without humanity Worship without sacrifice Politics without principle.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “There is sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “My religion is based on truth and nonviolence. Truth is my God. Nonviolence is the means of realizing Him.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Prayer is not asking. It is a language of the soul.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness.... It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “I understood ... that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “The best politics is right action.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Patience means self-suffering.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be inseparable part of our very being.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Non-violence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupations is exhilarating and life–giving.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Increase of material comforts, it may generally be laid down, does not in any way conduce to moral growth.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “My life is an indivisible whole, and all my activities run into one another: and they have their rise in my insatiable love of mankind.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “There is more to life than increasing its speed.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Learn as if you would live forever, live as if you would die tomorrow.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Almost anything you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Those who know how to think need no teachers.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Honesty is incompatible with amassing a large fortune.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “It is difficult but not impossible to conduct strictly honest business. What is true is that honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Never make a promise in haste.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says 'Do this.'”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Freedom and slavery are mental states.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “For the nonviolent person, the whole world is one family. He will fear none, nor will others fear him.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “An eye for an eye will make the whole world go blind.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “If you don't ask, you don't get.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the weak. I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the strongest. I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: 'Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the nature of their respective countrymen by forcing and hammering violent methods on them. Man may be suppressed in this manner but he cannot be changed. Ahimsa [non-violence in the Hindu tradition], on the other hand, can change human nature and sooner than men like Churchill and Hitler.'”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “We must become the change we want to see in the world.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “I came to the conclusion long ago ... that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Ahimas is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “I claim to be no more than an average man with less than average abilities. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the w”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “What difference does it make to the dead...whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “Where there is love there is life.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “I think it would be a good idea.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

 Mahatma Gandhi - “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”

Thank you sir.... its really thought provoking!

A great compilation of quotes of great men !

Originally posted by : CA SURENDRA KUMAR RAKHECHA
	A great compilation of quotes of great men !

Really,,

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thanx sir...good compilation