- Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness.
- It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.
- Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.
- Hate the sin, love the sinner.
- Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.
- The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.
My life is my message.
- In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.
- 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.
- Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.
- There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.
- What barrier is there that love cannot break?
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
- The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
- Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
- In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
- The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
- Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- 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.
- A ‘No’ uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
- They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
- Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- To lose patience is to lose the battle.
- My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.
- Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.
That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
- Even if the paradise of material satisfactions, which they envisage as their final goal, were realize on earth, it would not bring mankind either contentment or peace.
- The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.
- I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
- 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.
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.
- I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
- You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
- To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.
- Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
- The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.
- Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
- There is more to life than increasing its speed.
- Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
- Where there is love there is life.
- You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.