Mahatma Gandhi

November 8, 2007 at 9:33 am (Uncategorized)

His real name is Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, he was born October 2, 1869 in Porbandar, Gujarat, British India.  Mahatma isn’t a name it’s a title he got in 1915 by a friend of him, named Rabindranath Tagore.

Famous quotes by Mahatma Gandhi:

  • «The world has enough for everybody’s need, but not for everybody’s greed.»
  • «Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.»
  • «Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.»
  • «It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.»
  • «Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.»
  • «Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.»
  • «To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.»
  • «If we Indians could only spit in unison, we would form a puddle big enough to drown 3,000,000 Englishmen.»
  • «An eye for an eye will only end up making the whole world blind.»
  • «Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.»
  • «You must be the change you wish to see in the world.»
  • «Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul.»
  • «The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.»
  • «Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.»
  • Copy from this site:

    http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi#Klassiske_sitater)

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