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If patience is worth anything,
it must endure to the end of time.
And a living faith will last
in the midst of the blackest storm.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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If I had no sense of humor,
I would long ago have committed suicide.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If we are to teach real peace in this world,
and if we are to carry on a real war against war,
we shall have to begin with the children.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Every formula of every religion has, in this age of reason,
to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
- Mohandas (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.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Justice that love gives is a surrender,
justice that law gives is a punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Where there is love there is life.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Confession of errors is like a broom
which sweeps away the dirt
and leaves the surface brighter and clearer.
I feel stronger for confession.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Moral authority is never retained by
any attempt to hold on to it.
It comes without seeking and
is retained without effort.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There are people in the world so hungry,
that God cannot appear to them
except in the form of bread.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment
and the other by acts of love. Power based on love
is a thousand times more effective and permanent
then the one derived from fear of punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I object to violence because
when it appears to do good,
the good is only temporary;
the evil it does is permanent.
- Mohandas (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.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
God is, even though the whole world deny him.
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart,
cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You must not lose faith in humanity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly.
The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We win justice quickest by rendering
justice to the other party.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation
also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Action expresses priorities.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We may have our private opinions
but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I am committed to truth, not consistency.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I believe in equality for everyone,
except reporters and photographers.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Prayer is the key of the morning
and the bolt of the evening.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (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.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort.
Full effort is full victory.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
God has no religion.
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal
of plain living and high thinking
the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants.
Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Non-violence is the article of faith.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Always aim at complete harmony
of thought and word and deed.
Always aim at purifying your thoughts
and everything will be well.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The human voice can never reach the distance
that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I know, to banish anger altogether
from one's breast is a difficult task.
It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort.
It can be done only by God's grace.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Strength does not come from winning.
Your struggles develop your strengths.
When you go through hardships
and decide not to surrender,
that is strength.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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