Quotes of Gandhi - somelinesforyou

“ It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Service without humility is selfishness and egotism. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ My life is my message. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Hate the sin, love the sinner. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Interviewer: “What do you think of Western Civilization?” Gandhi: “I think it would be a good idea”. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline. ”

- Unknown

“ For winning Swaraj one requires iron discipline. ”

- Unknown

“ Gandhi was a deceptively clever strategist whose frail, even saintly appearance constantly misled his adversaries into underestimating him. ”

- Robert Greene

“ In South Africa, his success was complete; in India it was very considerable; and had his following been larger and more uniformly nonviolent, his pacific instrument would have triumphed. ”

- Laurence Housman

“ Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi‘s views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence for fighting for our cause, but by non-participation of anything you believe is evil. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ One feels of him that there was much he did not understand, but not that there was anything that he was frightened of saying or thinking. ”

- George Orwell

“ Gandhi proved it is possible to fight for one’s people and win without for a moment losing the world’s respect. ”

- Albert Camus

“ I am really honoured but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me I would have been more honoured. ”

- Kailash Satyarthi

“ I am very proud to be an Indian, a son of the soil where Mahatma Gandhi and Buddha were born and they were always the great inspiration for me, in my life. ”

- Kailash Satyarthi

“ I believe in Gandhi‘s philosophy of the last man, that is, the bonded laborer is the last man in Indian society, that we are here to liberate the last man. ”

- Kailash Satyarthi

“ I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon… but I want to stay alive. ”

- Madonna Ciccone

“ Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion. ”

- Stafford Cripps

“ Gandhi has more recently recognized the need for continuance of British, American and Chinese efforts in India and has suggested that these troops might remain by agreement with some new Indian Government. ”

- Stafford Cripps

“ One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr

“ You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. ”

- Indira Gandhi

“ Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. ”

- Nelson Mandela
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