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GANDHIJI QUOTATIONS
1. Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
2. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it
comes.
3. Great men never die, and it is up to us to keep them immortal by continuing the work they have
commenced.
4. He who exercises restraint under provocation wins the battle.
5. The highest honor that my friends can do me is to enforce in their own lives the program that I
stand for or to resist me to their utmost if they do not believe in it.
6. After I am gone, a little bit of me will live in many of you.
7. Beauty must be praised, but the praise should be mute. And you must enjoy it by giving it up.
8. Beauty is an internal quality which is not visible to the physical eye
9. Give me the spinning-wheel and I will spin Swaraj for India
10. The central disease of India is its deep poverty and deeper ignorance.
11. A chronic and long standing social evil cannot be swept away at a stroke, it always requires
patience and perseverance.
12. Divine knowledge is not borrowed from books. It has to be realized in oneself. Books are at best
an aid, often even a hindrance.
13. Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism. The Temple of Freedom requires
the patient, intelligent and constructive efforts of tens of thousands of men and women.
14. For social service, what is required is not money but men of the right sort, full of faith in their work.
15. Duty is a debt
16. Deeds, like seeds, take their own time to fructify.
17. Communalism is an urban product. In rural areas, the people are too poor and too interdependent
to find time for communal quarrels.
18. Everything written in books must not be considered authentic. Anything that is immoral or inhuman
must not be believed in, no matter in what sacred book it occurs.
19. Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or villages,
to all that is best and lasting in India.
20. The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and
moral development of children through the medium of a handicraft.
21. Mere book-reading will be of little help in life. I know from
correspondence with students what wrecks they have become by
having stuffed their brains with information derived from a cartload
of books.
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