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Mohandas Gandhi was an Indian leader for the Indian independence movement when India was under British colonial rule. He was famous saying many different things. With that in mind, check out the top 82 Gandhi quotes to help inspire you.
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#82 – 80. Gandhi Quotes
82. The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
81. You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
80. I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
#79 – 70. Gandhi Quotes
79. A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
78. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
77. Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
76. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
75. It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
74. To lose patience is to lose the battle.
73. “When you are right, you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.”
72. Even if the paradise of material satisfactions, which they envisage as their final goal, were realize on earth, it would not bring mankind either contentment or peace.
71. That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
70. “The good man is the friend of all living things.”
#69 – 60. Gandhi Quotes
69. They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
68. Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.
67. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
66. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
65. Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.
64. “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
63. There is more to life than increasing its speed.
62. Be the change that you want to see in the world.
61. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
60. “Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance, and appreciation.”
#59 – 50. Gandhi Quotes
59. You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
58. “A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks he becomes.”
57. There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.
56. “Without action, you aren’t going anywhere.”
55. In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
54. “The best way is to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
53. Where there is love there is life.
52. Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
51. The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.
50. The future depends on what you do today.
#49 – 40. Gandhi Quotes
49. I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
48. “Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as being able to remake ourselves..”
47. Hate the sin, love the sinner.
46. An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
45. A ‘No’ uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
44. Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.
43. Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
42. Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.
41. “Love never claims, it ever gives.”
40. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.
#39 – 30. Gandhi Quotes
39. “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
38. The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
37. “You yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.”
36. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong.
35. If you want real peace in the world, start with children.
34. You don’t know who is important to you until you actually lose them.
33. Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
32. I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one’s self-respect.
31. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
30. Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
#29 – 20. Gandhi Quotes
29. Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
28. The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.
27. “I remain an optimist because of my unflinching faith that right must prosper in the end.”
26. Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.
25. To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
24. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.
23. A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
22. It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.
21. I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
20. A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks he becomes.
#19 – 10. Gandhi Quotes
19. “A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.”
18. My life is my message.
17. If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
16. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.
15. An ounce of practice is worth a thousand words.
14. My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.
13. 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.
12. “To believe in something, and not live it, is dishonest.”
11. “It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.”
10. It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
#9 – 1. Gandhi Quotes
9. “If we want to reach real peace in this world, we should start educating children.”
8. 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.
7. The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
6. “Silence is the best answer to anger.”
5. Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
4. 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.
3. Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
2. What barrier is there that love cannot break?
1. “You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.”
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