India's "Father of the Nation" & his famous quotes

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, more commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of Satyagraha—a philosophy that is largely concerned with truth and 'resistance to evil through active, non-violent resistance'—which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is commonly known in India and across the world as the Mahatma (Sanskrit: mahātmā — "Great Soul" - an epithet given by Tagore) and as Bapu (Gujarati: bāpu—"Father"). In India, he is officially accorded the honour of Father of the Nation and October 2, his birthday, is commemorated each year as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday. On 15 June 2007, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution declaring October 2 to be the "International Day of Non-Violence."

Here are his popular quotations:

• "We must become the change we want to see."

• "Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy."
  

• “You may never know what result comes of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result.”

• “The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”

• “Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.”

"We must become the change we want to see."