Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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

Leadership, Time, Today

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Mahatma Gandhi

Truth, Become, Reason

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Mahatma Gandhi

Fitness, Health, Real

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Mahatma Gandhi

Justice, Conscience, Higher

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

Inspirational, Gentle, Shake

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Mahatma Gandhi

Everything, Thought, Thoughts

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
Mahatma Gandhi

Simple, Humility, Enough

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi

Best, Yourself, Find

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Mahatma Gandhi

Religion, Beauty, Soul

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
Mahatma Gandhi

History, Whole, Nation

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

Humor, Long, Sense

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Mahatma Gandhi

Truth, Nature, Ignorance

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
Mahatma Gandhi

Give, Compromise, Surrender

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
Mahatma Gandhi

Men, Themselves, Mystery

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.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Power, Fear

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi

Strength, Physical, Capacity

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
Mahatma Gandhi

Peace, Real, Find

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma Gandhi

Anger, Enemy, Pride

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
Mahatma Gandhi

Future, God, Care

Action expresses priorities.
Mahatma Gandhi

Action, Priorities, Expresses

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Mahatma Gandhi

Faith, God, Nothing

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
Mahatma Gandhi

True, Violence, Spirit

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mahatma Gandhi

Religion, Business, True

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

Good, Evil, Violence

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
Mahatma Gandhi

Soul, Nation, Culture

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Leader

Born: October 2, 1869

Died: January 30, 1948

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