Gandhi Jayanti 2024: Every year on 2nd October, we celebrate the Birthday of the Father of our Nation Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi Ji always tried to shed light on the non-violent approach to any problem. These days, the world is suffering from violence, wars, attacks, terrorism and much more. Be it the Israel-Palestine situation or the Russia-Ukraine war, everywhere is violence. As Gandhi Ji always promoted peace, this Gandhi Jayanti 2024 let’s recollect the top 10 peaceful quotes of Bapu. His messages have the power to make anyone a follower of Ahimsa. Take a look at the Top 10 Peace Quotes of Gandhi Ji.
Gandhi Jayanti 2024: Top 10 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
- Be the change you want to see in the world
Meaning: Mahatma Gandhi in this quote is expressing his thoughts on the change. He means if you want the world to change then you have to be the one to bring it.
- All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender, for it is all give and no take
Meaning: If your compromise is based on give and take then it is not real. Compromises made on fundamentals is like giving up everything.
- The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong
Meaning: Here Mahatma Gandhi is trying to say that forgiving is the identity of a strong person. Only a person who is mentally strong can forgive.
- If we are to teach real peace in this world, we shall have to begin with the children
Meaning: Mahatma Gandhi always promoted a peaceful world. In this quote, Gandhi Ji is trying to say that world peace will begin with children or from the basic level.
- Ahimsa is one of the world’s great principles which no power on earth can wipe out
Meaning: Mahatma Gandhi in this quote is talking about peace. He is saying that Ahmisa or Non-Violence is the biggest power one can have. Nothing can remove it completely.
- Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances
Meaning: Mahatma Gandhi in this quote talked about inner peace. He said that one should feel peaceful from within and no external circumstance should affect you.
- Even if the paradise of material satisfaction, which they envisage as their final goal, were realised on earth, it would not bring mankind either contentment or peace
Meaning: Here Mahatma Gandhi is trying to shed light on the fact that material goals can never equal the real contentment or peace.
- Peace is its own reward
Meaning: Mahatma Gandhi in this quote is trying to address the peace as the real reward. Usually, people questions about what will they get in return of peace. Well, here is the answer.
- Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is a daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart
Meaning: Mahatma Gandhi here tries to emphasise on the real meaning of Prayers. This quote means genuineness is more important than the spoken words.
- The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace
Meaning: The day people start to think of each other and the power of love will lead everyone’s heart only then the world will see the true peach.
International Non-Violence Day
International Non-Violence Day is celebrated every year on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi‘s birthday. It is celebrated to spread the message of non-violence among the people of different nations. In 2007, the United Nations General Assembly established this day.
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