“Every living faith must have within itself the power of rejuvenation if it is to live”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
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Famous Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
“The process of learning should be as far as possible a pleasurable one and not laborious”
“Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.”
“As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist”
Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader
“Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“I am a passionate seeker after truth which is but another name for God.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings
“Never make a promise in haste.”
Source: Collected Works
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings
“Nature Cure is so simple easy and cheap.....this system of treatment should be used.”
Source: Homage to the Departed
Source: My Picture of Free India
“I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!”
Source: Collected Works
“We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.”
“The earth has enough resources for our need, but not for our greed.”
Source: Young India
“Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace”
Source: Peace: The Words and Inspiration of Mahatma Gandhi
“A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“God is that indefinable something which we all feel but which we do not know.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings
“You have the choice to create the life your heart is yearning to live.”
“Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path.”
“The one religion is beyond all speech.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
“Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason!”
Source: Volume of prefaces
“A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
“To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.”
Source: Communal Unity
“Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me.”
“I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.”
Source: Collected Works
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas