Inspiration Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi
1869 - 1948
Leader of India

About Mahatma Ghandi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of Satyagraha, resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa or total non-violence which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. He is commonly known around the world as Mahatma Gandhi or "Great Soul", an honorific first applied to him by Rabindranath Tagore and in India also as Bapu or "Father". He is officially honoured in India as the Father of the Nation; his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and worldwide as the International Day of Non-Violence.

Gandhi first employed non-violent civil disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, in the resident Indian community's struggle for civil rights. After his return to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers in protesting excessive land-tax and discrimination. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, for expanding women's rights, for building religious and ethnic amity, for ending untouchability, for increasing economic self-reliance, but above all for achieving Swaraj—the independence of India from foreign domination. Gandhi famously led Indians in protesting the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later in calling for the British to Quit India in 1942. He was imprisoned for many years, on numerous occasions, in both South Africa and India.

Gandhi was a practitioner of non-violence and truth, and advocated that others do the same. He lived modestly in a self-sufficient residential community and wore the traditional Indian dhoti and shawl, woven with yarn he had hand spun on a charkha. He ate simple vegetarian food, and also undertook long fasts as means of both self-purification and social protest.



A collection of famous quotes by Gandhi filled with inspiration and wisdom for you to reflect on. Gandhi was an inspiration to many around the world.

Where there is love there is life.
~Gandhi, Best

A "No" uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
~Gandhi

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

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.
~Gandhi

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

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
~Gandhi

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
~Gandhi

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.
~Gandhi

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
~Gandhi

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

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
~Gandhi

The pleasure lies in making the effort, not in its fulfillment.
~Gandhi

Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.
~Gandhi

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
~Gandhi

Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares.
~Gandhi

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
~Gandhi

It is health which is real wealth, not pieces of silver and gold.
~Gandhi

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

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
~Gandhi

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

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
~Gandhi

Be the change that you want to see in the world.
~Gandhi

Action expresses priorities.
~Gandhi

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
~Gandhi

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
~Gandhi

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
~Gandhi

Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this".
~Gandhi

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

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
~Gandhi

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
~Gandhi

All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.
~Gandhi

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
~Gandhi

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

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
~Gandhi

There is a beauty and an art in simplicity which he who runs may see.
~Gandhi

What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?
~Gandhi

An eye for an eye makes us all blind.
~Gandhi

Every affliction has its own rich lesson to teach, if we would learn it.
~Gandhi