“A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.”
Source: Gandhi's Bible
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Famous Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
“Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.”
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
“Change occurs when deeply felt private experiences are given public legitimacy.”
“To lose patience is to lose the battle.”
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: All Men Are Brothers
Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader
“Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.”
“It's not too late at all. You just don't yet know what you are capable of.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.”
Source: The essential Gandhi: an anthology
“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
“I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.”
Source: Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance
“I wish to change there minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all poses.”
“When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
Source: The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi
“In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.”
Source: Young India
“Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together”
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words