Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi) (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist, who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India’s independence from British Rule. I hope these quotes by Mahatma Gandhi will inspire you in life.
- “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Those who know how to think need no teachers.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Strength does not come from physical capacity, it comes from an indomitable will.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “If we want to reach real peace in this world, we should start educating children.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks he becomes.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- Love More, Hate Less
- “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror refection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “There is no ‘way to peace,’ there is only peace.” –Mahatma Gandhi
- “Poverty is the worst form of violence.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.”- Mahatma Gandhi
- “A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “The good man is the friend of all living things.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “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.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”- Mahatma Gandhi
- “If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Don’t talk about it. The rose doesn’t have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “If we are to reach real peace in the world, we shall have to begin with the children.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world, but to change ourselves.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Speak only if it improves upon the silence.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problem.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” – Mahatma Gandhi
Facts About MK Gandhi
- Gandhi did his schooling from Alfred High School, Rajkot Gujarat India
- His birthday on 2nd October is commemorated worldwide as International Day of Nonviolence
- MK Gandhi was assassinated in the garden of the former Birla House
- Mahatma Gandhi and famous author Leo Tolstoy interacted with each other through letters
- MK Gandhi set up a small colony, Tolstoy Farm at an 1100 acre site, 21 miles from Johannesburg, South Africa for his colleagues in the Satyagraha struggle
- He not only fought for Independence but also demanded fair treatment for the untouchables, lower caste and also done several fasts in support of them. He also called untouchables as harijans meaning “children of God”
- Gandhi in 1982 is an epic historical drama film based on Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi won the Academic Award for the best motion picture
- He was born on Friday, India got its freedom on Friday and Gandhi was assassinated on Friday
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was not born with the title Mahatma. He was given the title to him by the Nobel Prize-winning Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore
- In 1930, he was the Time Magazine Man of the Year. He was a great writer and the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi have 50,000 pages
- Do you know that 5 times Mahatma Gandhi was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
- The country against whom he fought for India’s Independence, Great Britain, released a stamp honoring him, 21 years after his death
