Famous Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi (103 Quotations)

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Mahatma Gandhi – [Coward and Cowardice]

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 – [Freedom]

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Mahatma Gandhi – [Food and Eating]

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi – [Happiness]

Hatred can be overcome only by love.

Mahatma Gandhi – [Hatred]

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

Mahatma Gandhi – [Truth]

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 – [Technology]

I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. 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 – [Faith]

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Mahatma Gandhi – [Marriage]

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 – [Inheritance]

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Mahatma Gandhi – [Power]

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Mahatma Gandhi – [Vision]

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Mahatma Gandhi – [Violence]

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Mahatma Gandhi – [Leaders and Leadership]

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 – [Christians and Christianity]

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Mahatma Gandhi – [Humor]

If you don't ask, you don't get.

Mahatma Gandhi – [Ask]

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Mahatma Gandhi – [Service]

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

Mahatma Gandhi – [Materialism]

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 – [Indolence]