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Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi (25)

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Born: October 2, 1869, Porbandar, Gujarat, India.
Died: January 30, 1948, New Delhi, India.


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  1. To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
  2. Good government is no substitute for self-government.
  3. If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
  4. The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
  5. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
  6. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
  7. A coward is incapable of exhibiting love.. it is the prerogative of the brave.
  8. A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.
  9. Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of the truth.
  10. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
  11. 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.
  12. You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.
  13. To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.
  14. A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.
  15. Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
  16. Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
  17. Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.
  18. Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
  19. Satan’s successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.
  20. I do feel that spiritual progress does demand, at some stage, that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.
  21. I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man, and believing as I do in the theory of reincarnation, I live in the hope that if not in this birth, in some other birth I shall be able to hug all of humanity in friendly embrace.
  22. What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
  23. In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
  24. A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
  25. Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

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