Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahatma—applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa,—is now used worldwide. He is also called Bapuin India. In common parlance in India he is often called Gandhiji. He is unofficially called the Father of the Nation...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth2 October 1869
CityPortbandar, India
CountryIndia
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
Truth never damages a cause that is just.