3,410 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.

It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.

The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.

God the Compassionate and the Merciful, Tolerance incarnate, allows Mammon to have his nine days' wonder.

What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?

Fear gone, there can be no hatred.

Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.