Mahatma Gandhi

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”

“God has no religion.”

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”

“Where there is love there is life.”

“Hate the sin, love the sinner.”

“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”

“Be the change you want to see in the world”

“To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.”

“It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.”

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”

“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”

“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 truth.”

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

“Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.”

“If I had no sense of humor, I should long ago have committed suicide.”

“God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.”

“If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.”

“Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.”

“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”

“Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.”

“There's no God higher than truth.”

“No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.”

“It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.”

“A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.”

“Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.”

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

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

“Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.”

“Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.”

“I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.”

“អ្នកត្រូវតែជាអ្នកផ្លាស់ប្ដូរដែលអ្នកចង់ឃើញពិភពលោក។”

“Self-respect knows no considerations.”

“I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.”

“There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.”

“Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.”

“The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.”

“Fear has its use but cowardice has none.”

“Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.”

“I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.”

“Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.”

“I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.”

“Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.”

“Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.”

“God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.”

“To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.”

“Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.”

“Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.”

“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?”

“All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.”

“Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.”

“My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.”

“I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.”

“I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.”

“I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.”

“The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.”

“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”

“What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.”

“I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.”

“It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.”

“A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.”

“Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.”

“I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.”

“Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.”