Mahatma Gandhi
Leader of Indian independence, philosophy of nonviolence
Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
The future depends on what you do today.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of food.
Where there is love there is life.
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.