Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, more commonly known as ‘Mahatma’ (meaning ‘Great Soul’) was born on 2nd October 1869 in Porbandar, Gujarat, in North West India, into a Hindu Modh family. He was the primary leader of India's independence movement and also the architect of a form of nonviolent civil disobedience that influence the world.
Mahatama Gandhi was very fortunate to receive a comprehensive education, but proved a mediocre student. In May 1883, aged 13, mahatama was married to Kasturba Makhanji, a girl also aged 13, through the arrangement of their respective parents, as is customary in India, she bore him the first of four sons, in 1888 Following his entry into Samaldas College, at the University of Bombay, mahatama was unhappy at college, following his parent’s wishes to take the bar, and when he was offered the opportunity of furthering his studies overseas, at University College London, aged 18, he accepted, starting there in September 1888.
Following admission to the English Bar, and his return to India, he found work difficult to come by and, in 1893, accepted a year’s contract to work for an Indian firm in Natal, South Africa.
Although not yet enshrined in law, the system of ‘apartheid’ was very much in evidence in South Africa at the turn of the 20th century. Despite arriving on a year’s contract, Gandhi spent the next 21 years living in South Africa, and railed against the injustice of racial segregation. On one occasion he was thrown from a first class train carriage, despite being in possession of a valid ticket. Witnessing the racial bias experienced by his countrymen served as a catalyst for his later activism, and he attempted to fight segregation at all levels. He founded a political movement, known as the Natal Indian Congress, and developed his theoretical belief in non-violent civil protest into a tangible political stance, when he opposed the introduction of registration for all Indians, within South Africa, via non-cooperation with the relevant civic authorities.
On his return to India in 1916, Gandhi developed his practice of non-violent civic disobedience still further, raising awareness of oppressive practices in Bihar, in 1918, which saw the local populace oppressed by their largely British masters. He also encouraged oppressed villagers to improve their own circumstances, leading peaceful strikes and protests. His fame spread, and he became widely referred to as ‘Mahatma’ or ‘Great Soul’.
Mahatma Gandhi suffered 6 assassination attempts during the course of his life. Gandhi was finally assassinated on 30th January 1948, while Gandhi was on his way to prayer meeting on Birla House in Delhi. He was shot three times in the chest at point blank range. Gandhi’s dying words were claimed to be “ Hé Rām ”, which translates as “ Oh God ”, although some witnesses claim he spoke no words at all.
Mahatma Gandhi quotes
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Action expresses priorities.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”
― Mahatma Gandhi,
“You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?"
[To the Women of India (Young India, Oct. 4, 1930)]”
Mahatma Gandhi
“It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles."
(Young India, 22 October 1925)”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. ”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.” Mahatma Gandhi
“In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Truth is one, paths are many.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Science without humanity
Knowledge without character
Politics without principle
Commerce without morality
Worship without sacrifice.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“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.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Where there is love there is life.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“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.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“God has no religion.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Hate the sin, love the sinner.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“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.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The future depends on what you do today.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:
- I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
- I shall fear only God.
- I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
- I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
- I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” Mahatma Gandhi
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“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 in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
Mahatma Gandhi
“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
Mahatma Gandhi
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