Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.

Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.

The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed

If you want to change the world, start with yourself.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?

When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Your future depends on what you do today.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

People cannot hurt you without your permission.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present

Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the slightest warning, without even asking me to leave the footpath, pushed and kicked me into the street. I was dismayed. Before I could question him as to his behaviour, Mr Coates, who happened to be passing the spot on horseback, hailed me and said: 'Gandhi, I have seen everything. I shall gladly be your witness in court if you proceed against the man. I am very sorry you have been so rudely assaulted.'

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.

It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

If untouchability lives, humanity must die.

For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.

I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.

You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good man will therefore resist an evil system or administration with his whole soul.

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.

Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.

Let your life be your message.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live.

It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.

A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.

Sanitation is more important than Independence.