Top 47 Most Motivational Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Let these Gandhi quotes become your mantras for greater love, motivation, purpose, inner peace and success!!

“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.”- Mahatma Gandhi

“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” –Mahatma Gandhi

“Don’t talk about it. The rose doesn’t have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.”- Mahatma Gandhi

“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”- Mahatma Gandhi

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.”- Mahatma Gandhi

“Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism.

“I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.”- Mahatma Gandhi

“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”- Mahatma Gandhi

“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”- Mahatma Gandhi

“If we are to reach real peace in the world, we shall have to begin with the children.”- Mahatma Gandhi

“If we want to reach real peace in this world, we should start educating children.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”- Mahatma Gandhi

“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” – 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.

“Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.”- Mahatma Gandhi

“My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”- Mahatma Gandhi

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

“Poverty is the worst form of violence.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Relationships are based on four principles, respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.” – Mahatma Gandhi

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

“Speak only if it improves upon the silence.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Strength does not come from physical capacity, it comes from indomitable will.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”- Mahatma Gandhi

“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problem.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”- Mahatma Gandhi

“There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“There is no ‘way to peace,’ there is only peace.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.”- Mahatma Gandhi

“Those who know how to think need no teachers.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”- Mahatma Gandhi

“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror refection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” – 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

“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”- 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

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. – Mahatma Gandhi

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. – Mahatma Gandhi

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men. – Mahatma Gandhi

The good man is the friend of all living things. – Mahatma Gandhi

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. – Mahatma Gandhi

“I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact,I can see that on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage. My hesitancy in speech, which was once an annoyance, is now a pleasure. Its greatest benefit has been that it has taught me the economy of words.

I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. And I can now give myself the certificate that a thoughtless word hardly ever escapes my tongue or pen. I do not recollect ever having had to regret anything in my speech or writing. I have thus been spared many a mishap and waste of time. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. Proneness to exaggerate, to suppress or modify the truth, wittingly or unwittingly, is a natural weakness of man, and silence is necessary in order to surmount it.

A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech; he will measure every word. We find so many people impatient to talk. There is no chairman of a meeting who is not pestered with notes for permission to speak. And whenever the permission is given the speaker generally exceeds the time-limit, asks for more time, and keeps on talking without permission. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.” – Mahatma Gandhi