Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Mothers

• A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mother, Children, Sleep

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Selected Letters”

• I have not know a worthy son to whom his mother appeared ugly.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mother, Son, Ugly

• Adversity is the mother of progress.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mother, Adversity, Progress

  Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

• God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Daughter, Mother

  Mahatma Gandhi (1964). “Through Self-control”

• Mother cow is in many ways better than the mother who gave us birth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mother, Cows, Way

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.401, Rajpal & Sons

• The Gita is not only my Bible and my Koran, it is more than that, it is my mother.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mother, Gita

• I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right to live accrues to us only when we do the duty of citizenship of the world. From this one fundamental statement, perhaps it is easy enough to define the duties of Man and Woman and correlate every right to some corresponding duty to be first performed. Every other right can be shown to be a usurpation hardly worth fighting for.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wise, Mother, Fighting

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Supplementary volume”

• Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother's affection without needing any demonstration.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Mother, Children

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.65, North Atlantic Books

• India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mother, Children, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Gandhis India: Unity in Diversity”

• My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mother, Cutting, Passing By

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.163, Grove Press

• Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mother, Alive, Cows

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.401, Rajpal & Sons

• Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mother, Cows, Grass

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.124, Rajpal & Sons

• If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mother, Ignorant, Done

  Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

• In order to get meat, we have to kill. And we are certainly not entitled to any other milk except the mother's milk in our infancy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mother, Order, Meat

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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