Gandhi Quotes❓

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

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away by the tide of time. I must, therefore, continue to bear testimony to Truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness. However, if the words I speak are True, they will be heard long after other voices have died down.—Gandhi

Action expresses priorities.—Gandhi

Soft dark eyes, a small frail man, with a thin face and rather large protruding eyes, his head covered with a white cap, his body clothed in coarse white cloth, bare-footed. He [Gandhi] lives on rice and fruit, and drinks only water. He sleeps on the floor—sleeps very little, and works incessantly. His body does not seem to count at all. There is nothing striking about him—except his whole expression of ‘infinite patience and infinite love.’ W. W. Pearson, who met him in South Africa, instinctively thought of St. Francis of Assisi. There is an almost child-like simplicity about him. His manner is gentle and courteous even when dealing with adversaries, and he is of immaculate sincerity. He is modest and unassuming, to the point of sometimes, seeming almost timid, hesitant, in making an assertion. Yet you feel his indomitable spirit. He makes no compromises to admit having been in the wrong. …Literally, ‘ill with the multitude that adores him’ he distrusts majorities and fears ‘mobocracy’ and the unbridled passions of the populace. He feels at ease only in a minority, and is happiest when, in meditative solitude, he can listen to the ‘still small voice’ within. This is the man who has stirred three hundred million people to revolt, who has shaken the foundations of the British Empire, and who has introduced into human politics the strongest religious impetus of the last two hundred years.—Romain Rolland re Gandhi

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

The science of war leads to dictatorship, pure and simple... Power is of two kinds, one is obtained by fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than power derived by fear of punishment.—Gandhi

All the power I may have come from G_d. But He does not work directly. He works through His numberless agencies.—Gandhi

As food is necessary for the body. Prayer is necessary for the soul. Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of G_d within. G_d demands nothing less than complete self-surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.—Gandhi

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.—Mohandas 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

G_d never answers the prayer of the arrogant, nor the prayers of those who bargains with Him. If you would ask Him to help you, go to Him in all your nakedness; approach Him without reservations, also without fear or doubts as to how He can help a fallen being like you.—Gandhi

Hatred ever kills. Love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred.—Gandhi