"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

"We must become the change we want to see."

"Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as being able to remake ourselves."

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

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

"Nothing is impossible for pure love."

"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."

"Full effort is full victory."

"God has no religion."

"Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear."

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

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

"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."

"To lose patience is to lose the battle."

"It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words."

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

"There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever."

"I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth."

"Live simply so that others may simply live."

"The future depends on what we do in the present."

"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into."

"Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth."

"It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone."

"A ‘No’ uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble."

"Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world, but to change ourselves."

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

"Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge."

"Service without humility is selfishness and egotism."

"A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him."

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

"It does not require money to live neat, clean, and dignified."

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."

"If you want to change the world, start with yourself."

"My life is my message."

"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed."

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

"Speak only if it improves upon the silence."

"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it."

"The enemy is fear. We think it is hate but it is fear."

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment."

"Life is but an endless series of experiments."

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

"Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation."

"Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening."

"Hate the sin, love the sinner."

"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love."

"No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness."

"It’s easy to stand with the crowd. It takes courage to stand alone."

"Where there is love there is life."

"It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your actions. But if you do nothing, there will be no result."

"Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth."

"My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness."

"Strength does not come from winning. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."

"Take care of this moment."

"The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children."

"Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny."

"It’s not too late at all. You just don’t yet know what you are capable of."

"Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature."

"The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear."

"Truth is one, paths are many."

"Strength does not come from physical capacity, it comes from an indomitable will."

"Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity."

"Find purpose. The means will follow."

"Your action expresses your priorities."

"Be the change you are trying to create."

"Self-respect knows no considerations."

"That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake."

"Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use."

"There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow."

"Action expresses priorities."

"For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments are equally imperfect."

"In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all."

"A man who was completely innocent offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act."

"Even if the paradise of material satisfaction, which they envisage as their final goal, were realized on earth, it would not bring mankind either contentment or peace."

"Common sense is the realized sense of proportion."

"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest."

"There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed."

"You yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection."

"The future depends on what you do today."

"When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books."

"Those who know how to think need no teachers."

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

"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles, but today it means getting along with people."

"What barrier is there that love cannot break?"

"Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith."

"The real love is to love those that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him."

"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver."

"True beauty consists of purity of heart."

"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress."

"There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent."

"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."

"Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn."

"Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly."

"A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history."

"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."

"Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers."

"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."

"Be the change you wish to see in the world."

"There is no ‘way to peace', there is only ‘peace’."

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

"The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity."

"I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment."

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."

"Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment."

"Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress."

"Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men."

"Man should forget his anger before he goes to sleep."

"Prayer is a confession of one’s own unworthiness and weakness."

"When you are right, you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry."

"Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning."

"Imitation is the sincerest flattery."

"Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people."

"Gentleness, self-sacrifice, and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion."

"Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong."

"Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be truly happy. If you try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers."

"Peace is its own reward."

"If we want to reach real peace in this world, we should start educating children."