Gandhi

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

Gandhi

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

Gandhi

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Gandhi

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

Gandhi

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

Gandhi

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Gandhi

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Gandhi

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

Gandhi

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Gandhi

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

Gandhi

The good man is the friend of all living things.

Gandhi

Action expresses priorities.

Gandhi

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

Gandhi

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Gandhi

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

Gandhi

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

Gandhi

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

Gandhi

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

Gandhi

A “No” uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Gandhi

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

Gandhi

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

Gandhi

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.

Gandhi

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

Gandhi

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Gandhi

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Gandhi

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Gandhi

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Gandhi

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Gandhi

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Gandhi

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

Gandhi

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Gandhi

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

Gandhi

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Gandhi