Fresh Thoughts

With Independence day tomorrow, i wish to post some of the quotes of Mahatma gandhi the Father of Indian Nation...Happy Independence Day to all Indians...


Below is the list of Gandhiji's Quotes.....


“Be the change you want to see in the world.”

“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.”
"If we practice an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole world will be blind and toothless."

"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems."


"Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation."

"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."

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.

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

"If you don't ask, you don't get."
"Poverty is the worst form of violence."

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

"Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding."
A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Candor

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

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

"Love the sinner but hate the sin."

Seven sins of life: Politics without principle. Commerce without morality. Wealth without work. Education without character. Science without humanity.

Pleasure without conscience. Worship without sacrifice.

God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.

"The Weak Can never Forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the Strong."

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

Fear has its use but cowardice has .


No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem
invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. 

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - Think of it, ALWAYS.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

The only tyrant I will accept in this world is the "still small voice" within me.

"God comes to the hungry in the form of food."

"To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man."

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

"They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them."

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger and we will make not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

"It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity."

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
"Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding."

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

"I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill."

"My life is my message"

"The good man is the friend of all living things."