Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Humility

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  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”

• To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Nature, Humility

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.379, Rajpal & Sons

• I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Humble, Humility

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.180, Vintage

• Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Humility, Self, Unity

• It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Humility, Unwise, Wisest

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

• I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Nature, Humility

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.114, A&C Black

• The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Crush, Wise, Humble

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.9, Courier Corporation

• Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Humility, Fields

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.454, Courier Corporation

• The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Kindness, Humility

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: The voice of truth”

• What is Truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the "voice within" tells you. All that I can in true humility present to you is that Truth is not to be found by anybody who has not got an abundant sense of humility. If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth you must reduce yourself to zero.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Zero, Integrity, Ocean

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, North Atlantic Books

• Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Humility, Selfishness, Egotism

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.50, Courier Corporation

• Nonviolence is impossible without humility.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Humility, Impossible, Nonviolence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.50, New Directions Publishing

• Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Humility, Would Be

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

• My varnashram refuses to bow the head before the greatest potentate on earth, but my varnashram compels me to bow down my head in all humility before knowledge, purity, before every person where I see God face to face.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Humility, Earth

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “My Varnashrama Dharma”

• The spirit of non-violence necessarily leads to humility. Non-violence means reliance on God, the rock of ages. If we would seek his aid, we must approach Him with a humble and contrite heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Humility, Heart

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.49, Hackett Publishing

• Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Humility, Independent

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.31, Courier Corporation

• The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Humility, Littles, Firsts

  Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Zero, Humility, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.35, A&C Black

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