Gandhiji's words continue to inspire countless individuals
around the world, offering guidance on principles of nonviolence, truth, and
humanity. Few pearls of his wisdom can be found below:
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the
service of others.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you
do are in harmony.
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of
the strong.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an
ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
The future depends on what you do today.
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be
judged by the way its animals are treated.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to
live forever.
First, they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they
fight you, then you win.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the
service of others.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from
an indomitable will.
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full
effort is full victory.
There is no god higher than truth.
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable
faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the
freedom to make mistakes.
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he
becomes.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice
within.
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and
silver.
Where there is love, there is life.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of
the strong.
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
The good man is the friend of all living things.
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is a
daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart
without words than words without a heart.
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works
for the welfare of his fellow men.
There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.
In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.
A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a
‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty
feet.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy
this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice
within.
Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to
the growth of a true democratic spirit.
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the
world will know peace.
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of
what he can do, nothing else.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the
service of others.
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full
effort is full victory.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you
do are in harmony.
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.
A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of
its people.
Where there is love there is life.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the
service of others.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better
than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
You may never know what results come of your actions, but if
you do nothing, there will be no results.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from
an indomitable will.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you
do are in harmony.
The good man is the friend of all living things.
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he
becomes.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.