Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Mahatma Gandhi's collection of the most iconic quotations and thoughts.


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


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


I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.


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


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


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


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


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.


It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.


A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.



About Mahatma Gandhi's:
was the preeminent leader of Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahatma (Sanskrit: "high-souled", "venerable")—applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa,—is now used worldwide. He is also called Bapu (Gujarati: endearment for "father", "papa") in India.

Born and raised in a Hindu merchant caste family in coastal Gujarat, western India, and trained in law at the Inner Temple, London, Gandhi first employed nonviolent civil disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, in the resident Indian community's struggle for civil rights. After his return to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers to protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, but above all for achieving Swaraj or self-rule.