Quote

I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.

Mahatma Gandhi

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mahatma Gandhi
Age: 78 †
Born: 1869
Born: October 2
Died: 1948
Died: January 30
Autobiographer
Barrister
Civil Rights Advocate
Civil Rights Leader
Essayist
Humanitarian
Journalist
Memoirist
Newspaper Editor
Peace Activist
Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
M. K. Gandhi
Mohandas K Gandhi
M K Gandhi
Mohandas Gandhi
Bapu
Gandhi
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Gandhiji
Gandhji
Bapuji
Father of the Nation
Mahatma Gandhi
Atheism
Spinning
Worth
Dishes
Homespun
Poor
Wheels
Goat
Cannot
Milk
Towels
Much
Reputation
Goats
Possession
Consist
Six
Possessions
Prison
Earthly

More quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Image
I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man, and believing as I do in the theory of reincarnation, I live in the hope that if not in this birth, in some other birth I shall be able to hug all of humanity in friendly embrace.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
The whole world is in the throes of a new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
Is the God of the Mahometan different from the God of the Hindu? Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? Wherein is the cause for quarreling?
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
God Himself has reserved no right of revision of His own laws nor is there any need for Him for any such revision.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
Life is one indivisible whole.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
I have shut my mind against nothing and I am a friend of Great Britain. I always have been. I have no axe to grind.
Mahatma Gandhi