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Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen.

Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen.

Mahatma Gandhi
Jesus, Good Life, World

History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

Mahatma Gandhi
Records, Resistance, Adopted
Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.334, Grove Press

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Life, Peace, Clever
Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Perfect, Trying
Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.119, A&C Black

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

Mahatma Gandhi
Spiritual, Lying, Heart

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.

Mahatma Gandhi
Life, Death, Spiritual
Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Men, Immature

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom, Mistake, Struggle
Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Mahatma Gandhi
Love, Peace, Truth

Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.

Mahatma Gandhi
Democracy, Liable, Institutions
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.23, Rajpal & Sons

One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.

Mahatma Gandhi
Humble, Dust

A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

Mahatma Gandhi
Character, Reflection, People
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.158, Courier Corporation

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Mahatma Gandhi
Love, Heart, Compassion
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.197, Tara Publishing

What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Spirit, Strive

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

Mahatma Gandhi
Spiritual, Religious, Kindness

Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued; and as soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst upon the world with a brilliance perhaps unknown before.

Mahatma Gandhi
Growth, World, Today

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

Mahatma Gandhi
Peace, Nature, Reflection

Cowards can never be moral.

Mahatma Gandhi
Coward, Morality, Moral
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.75, A&C Black

Every moment of my life I realize that God is putting me on my trial.

Mahatma Gandhi
Trials, Realizing, Moments
Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.398, Courier Corporation

Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.

Mahatma Gandhi
Self, Interest, Suppression
Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

There is always enough for the needy, there is never enough for the greedy.

Mahatma Gandhi
Greedy, Economics, Enough

Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.

Mahatma Gandhi
Sacrifice, Men, Innocent Man
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.90, Courier Corporation

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.

Mahatma Gandhi
Determination, Struggle, Accomplishment

To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.

Mahatma Gandhi
Spiritual, Lying, Forgiving
Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

Love transcends all animosity and is never partial.

Mahatma Gandhi
Free Love, Animosity