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50+ Famous Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi About Life and Freedom

It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result. – Mahatma Gandhi

Be truthful, gentle, and fearless. – Mahatma Gandhi

Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction. – Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people. – Mahatma Gandhi

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so. – Mahatma Gandhi

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. – Mahatma Gandhi

Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction. – Mahatma Gandhi

Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth. – Mahatma Gandhi

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. – Mahatma Gandhi

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members – Mahatma Gandhi

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it. – Mahatma Gandhi

We must be the world we want to create. – Mahatma Gandhi

Be the change you are trying to create. – Mahatma Gandhi

There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow – Mahatma Gandhi

The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed – Mahatma Gandhi

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

Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves. – Mahatma Gandhi

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results. – Mahatma Gandhi

Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind. – Mahatma Gandhi

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation. – Mahatma Gandhi

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall… think of it, always. – Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

If you worry about yesterday’s failures, then today’s successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present – Mahatma Gandhi

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane. – Mahatma Gandhi

Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself. – Mahatma Gandhi

Your action expresses your priorities. – Mahatma Gandhi

I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. – Mahatma Gandhi

Your future depends on what you do today. – Mahatma Gandhi

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. – Mahatma Gandhi

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

There are two days in the year that we can not do anything… – Mahatma Gandhi

The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it. – Mahatma Gandhi

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. – Mahatma Gandhi

it’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone – Mahatma Gandhi

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

Speak only if it improves upon the silence. – Mahatma Gandhi

When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry. – Mahatma Gandhi

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest… no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak… Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism… true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village. – Mahatma Gandhi

You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good man will therefore resist an evil system or administration with his whole soul. – Mahatma Gandhi

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. – Mahatma Gandhi

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny. – Mahatma Gandhi

If you want to change the world, start with yourself. – Mahatma Gandhi

Let your life be your message. – Mahatma Gandhi

There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results. – Mahatma Gandhi

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this… – Mahatma Gandhi

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats… – Mahatma Gandhi

It’s not too late at all. You just don’t yet know what you are capable of. – Mahatma Gandhi

A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history. – Mahatma Gandhi

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation. – Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness. – Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep. – Mahatma Gandhi

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

People cannot hurt you without your permission. – Mahatma Gandhi

If all Christians acted like Christ, the whole world would be Christian. – Mahatma Gandhi