There’s not a single person in the world who is untouched by the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi — the father of our nation — the chief advocate of ahimsa and satyagraha.
“An ounce of patience is worth more than a tonne of preaching.”
“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
“A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks he becomes.”
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
“It does not require money to live neat, clean, and dignified.”
“Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.”
“Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world, but to change ourselves.”
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
“Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be truly happy. If you try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers.”
“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.”
“A ‘No’ uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.”
“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”
“Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.”
“In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.”
“There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow.”
“There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.”
“No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.”
“My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.”
“The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.”
“Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.”
“The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.”
“Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.”
“Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.”
“A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.”
“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”
“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
“When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.”
“The real love is to love those that hate you, to love your neighbour even though you distrust him.”
“If we want to reach real peace in this world, we should start educating children.”
“Live simply so that others may simply live.”
“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
“Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.”
“I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.”
“Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.”
“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.”
“Hate the sin, love the sinner.”
“Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.”
“The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.”
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.”
“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.”
“The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity.”
“Man should forget his anger before he goes to sleep.”
“Gentleness, self-sacrifice, and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.”
“Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.”
“They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.”
“To lose patience is to lose the battle.”
“For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments are equally imperfect.”
“The real love is to love those that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.”
“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.”
“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”
“A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history.”
“It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.”
“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
“Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.”
“Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.”
“When you are right, you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.”
“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
“Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.”
“I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment.”
As the nation remembers Gandhi on his birth anniversary, take a look at some of his teachings.
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