“Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.”
Best“Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.”
Faith“Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.”
Best“I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.”
Great“Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.”
Love“The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.”
Life“Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?”
Freedom“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.”
Faith“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
God“Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.”
History“My life is my message.”
Life“What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.”
Hope“I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.”
Truth“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
Forgiveness“Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.”
Relationship“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.”
Faith“When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.”
Beauty“Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.”
Religion“Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.”
Fear“I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.”
God“If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.”
Peace“The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.”
Truth