3,410 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Strength does not come from winning. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.

When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household.

What you feel and how you react to something is always up to you. There may be a "normal" or a common way to react to different things. But that's mostly just all it is.

Old as I am in age, I have no feeling that I have ceased to grow inwardly or that my growth will stop at the dissolution of the flesh. What I am concerned with is my readiness to obey the call of Truth, my God, from moment to moment, no matter how inconsistent it may appear. My commitment is to Truth, not to consistency.

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love.

I believe in absolute oneness of God and therefore also of humanity.

Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.