50 Powerful Quotes of Mahatma Gandhi That Will Change Your Life( If Applied).

A Mahatma, who taught the world the power of non-violence.

Photo by Vikas Rohilla on Unsplash

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the father of the nation was one of the famous revolutionaries of India. He was born on 2nd October 1869 and this day is being celebrated as the International day of Non-violence.

He brought freedom to India from the tyrant Britishers with his non-violence weapon.

His endeavor to eliminate untouchability and expanding of women’s rights is praiseworthy. He was imprisoned many times fighting for justice.

He was believing in love, not war. His principles were peace and love that can end hatred and war.

Leadership was his unique quality, his encouraging words were deeply penetrating larger masses. He was a simple person with his daily life activities and, a brave one while standing against injustice.

He wrote a book titled, The Story of My Experiments with Truth. This book is a unique compilation of his life, while reading you can inculcate moral values in your life.

However, on 30 January 1948, he got assassinated by Nathuram Godse firing 3 bullets into his chest.

The powerful quotes of Mahatma Gandhi are going to enrich your understanding. These quotes will give you a new perspective on your life.

I hope you will read these quotes slowly over and over to inculcate the real meaning of these powerful words in life.

1. “Hate the sin, love the sinner.”
2. “Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.”
3. “To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”
4. “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
5. “Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.”
6. “There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.”
7. “You yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.”
8. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
9. “In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.”
10. “Speak only if it improves upon the silence.”
11. “The future depends on what we do in the present.”
12. “Those who know how to think need no teachers.”
13. “When you are right, you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.”
14. “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
15. “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”
16. “See the good in people and help them.”
17. “It’s not too late at all. You just don’t yet know what you are capable of.
18. “Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.”
19. “The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.”
20. “There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.”
21. “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.”
22. “Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world, but to change ourselves.”
23. “Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.”
24. “Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.”
25. “There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow.”
26. “Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.”
27. “Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.”
28. “It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.”
29. “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
30. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
31. “Strength does not come from winning. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”
32. “Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance, and appreciation.”
33. “An ounce of patience is worth more than a tonne of preaching.”
34. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
35. “Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.”
36. “If you want to change the world, start with yourself.”
37. “The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.”
38. “Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.”
39. “The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity.”
40. “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.”
41. “You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”
42. “The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
43. “The future depends on what you do today.”
44. “It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.”
45. “To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
46. “It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words.”
47. “To lose patience is to lose the battle.”
48. “Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.”
49. “A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks he becomes.”
50. “Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world, but to change ourselves.”

I hope you enjoy the Quotes of Mahatma Gandhi, kindly follow my Medium Account for getting life-changing articles.

My Twitter Account.