26 INSPIRATION QUOTES OF MAHATMA GANDHI

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the preeminent leader of Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. He is also called Bapu. Born and raised in a Hindu merchant caste family in coastal Gujarat, western India.

Gandhi famously led Indians in challenging the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km. Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later in calling for the British to Quit India in 1942. He was imprisoned for many years, upon many occasions, in both South Africa and India.

Gandhi attempted to practise nonviolence and truth in all situations, and advocated that others do the same. He lived modestly in a self-sufficient residential community and wore the traditional Indian dhoti and shawl, woven with yarn hand spun on a charkha. He ate simple vegetarian food.

Nathuram Godse, a Hindu nationalist, assassinated Gandhi on 30 January 1948 by firing three bullets into his chest at point-blank range. Indians widely describe Gandhi as the father of the nation. His birthday, 2 October, is commemorated as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and world-wide as the International Day of Nonviolence.

TOP QUOTES OF MAHATMA GANDHI:

1. 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.

2. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

3. I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.

4. Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

5. Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

6. Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.

7. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

8. A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks he becomes.

9. Be the change that you want to see in the world.

10. I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

11. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

12. An ounce of patience is worth more than a tonne of preaching.

13. Change yourself – you are in control.

14. See the good in people and help them.

15. Without action, you aren’t going anywhere.

16. Take care of this moment.

17. Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.

18. Continue to grow and evolve.

19. A no uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ uttered merely to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

20. Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

21. An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.

22. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

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

24. Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

25. In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

26. My Life is My Message.