Mahatma Gandhi Quotations and Quotes

1. While our attachment to the ego remains, we shall never taste the sweet ambrosia of self-knowledge.
    
2. That person who works without attachment is free, that is, he is not bound by be the effects of Karma.
    
3. When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth.
    
4. Cleanliness of the mind and body is the first step in education.
    
5. It is my firm conviction that nothing enduring can be built on violence.
    
6. Silence is a great help to a seeker after Truth like myself. In the attitude of silence, the soul finds the path in clear light, and what is elusive and deceptive, resolves itself into crystal clearness.
    
7. When your passions threaten to get the better of you, go down on your knees and cry out to God for help.
    
8. It is possible to endure a diseased body, but not a diseased mind.
    
9. The man who is proud and haughty may succeed for a while, but he must ultimately suffer.
    
10. Real ornamentation lies, not in loading the body with metal and stones, but in purifying the heart and developing the beauty of the soul.
     
11. The really moral man leads a life of virtue, not because it will do him good, but because it is the law of his being, the very breath of his nostrils. In a word, virtue is its own reward.
     
12. An armed soldier relies on his weapons for his strength. Take away from him his weapons--his gun or his sword, and he generally becomes helpless. But a person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God-given strength for his weapon and the world has not known anything that can match it.