3,410 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.

There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.

There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.

A perfect mind comes from a perfect heart, not the heart known by a doctor's stethoscope but the heart which is the seat of God.

There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case.

Charkha is an instrument of service.

I care so deeply about this matter that I'm willing to take on the legal penalties, to sit in this prison cell, to sacrifice my freedom, in order to show you how deeply I care. Because when you see the depth of my concern, and how civil I am in going about this, you're bound to change your mind about me, to abandon your rigid, unjust position, and to let me help you see the truth of my cause.

Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed

If I did not have a sense of humor, I would have long ago killed myself.