Mahatma Gandhi Quotes about Heart - Page 2

If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.

If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.

Moving, Heart, Thinking

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.42, Courier Corporation

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent.

Mahatma Gandhi

Heart, Men, Victory

We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment. Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions. It is a matter of heart culture, of unmeasurable strength.

Mahatma Gandhi

Spiritual, Philosophical, Heart

Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.75, A&C Black

God can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

God, Heart, Pure

Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.53, A&C Black

Faith is a function of the heart. It must be enforced by reason. The two are not antagonistic as some think. The more intense one's faith is, the more it whets one's reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

Mahatma Gandhi

Faith, Heart, Thinking

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.41, Courier Corporation

Rama was not only on the lips of Hanuman. He was enthroned in his heart. He gave Hanuman exhaustless strength.

Mahatma Gandhi

Heart, Rama, Lips

Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gita: The Mother”, Lahore, India : Indian Printing Works

He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

Heart, Essence, Suffering

Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

To give one's heart is to give all.

Mahatma Gandhi

Heart, Giving

Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Heart, Men, Rifles

Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.147, A&C Black

My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books.

Mahatma Gandhi

Book, Heart, Spinning

My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica.

Mahatma Gandhi

Country, Heart, Rebel

Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

Worship or prayer is not to be performed with the lips, but with the heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer, Heart, Lips

Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gita: The Mother”, Lahore, India : Indian Printing Works

Nonviolent action without the co-operation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result.

Mahatma Gandhi

Heart, Action, Results

Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)”

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

Mahatma Gandhi

Inspirational, Heart, Religion

Mahatma Gandhi (2014). “Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation”, p.114, The Floating Press

Non-cooperation is beyond the reach of the bayonet. It has found an abiding place in the Indian heart. Workers like me will go when the hour has struck, but non-cooperation will remain.

Mahatma Gandhi

Struggle, Heart, Bayonets

The greatness of a person lies in his heart, not in his head; that is intellect.

Mahatma Gandhi

Lying, Heart, Greatness

Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

Mahatma Gandhi

Heart, Motherhood, Men

Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.159, A&C Black

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Peace, Heart

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

Change, Heart, Democracy

Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.192, Vintage

To a pure heart all hearts are pure.

Mahatma Gandhi

Heart, Purity, Purification

Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

God, Heart, Truth Is

Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the teaching of the Gita, the `Light of Asia' and the Sermon on the Mount. That renunciation was the highest form of religion appealed to me greatly.

Mahatma Gandhi

Teaching, Heart, Light

Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

Faith, Heart, Religion

Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.244, Rajpal & Sons

If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Teacher, Real, Heart

Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.359, Jaico Publishing House

... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person here, another there, but to be love itself.

Mahatma Gandhi

Real, Heart, Needs