3,410 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible.

A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.

Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.

Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over man. As Tolstoy used to say, they are laboring under the hypnotic influence of man. If they would realize the strength of non-violence they would not consent to be called the weaker sex.

If we are to create peace in our world, we must begin with our children.

India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.

The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man.

The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.