Way More than a few of My Favorite Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
"True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it."
"Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy."
"You yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserves love and affection."
"The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall always see truth in fragment and different points of vision."
"Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them; a desire, a dream, a vision."
"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory."
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony."
"It is easy to stand in a crowd but it takes courage to stand alone."
"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 yourself."
"The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane."
"Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds, not words."
"Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral."
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems."
"It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts."
"Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
"There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results."
"Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity."
"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim a purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."
"My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from god as my successes and my talents and lay them both at his feet."
"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow in."
"Speak only if it improves upon the silence."
"Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances."
"Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly."
"There is no 'way to peace.' there is only 'peace."
"They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them."
"In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all."
"Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable."
"The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer."
"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest."
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
"Truth never damages a cause that is just."
"Whenever you are confronted with an opponet conquer him with love."
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed."
"Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. The next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn."
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
"The future depends on what you do today."
"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."
"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
"Hate the sin, love the sinner."
"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."
"Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become you habits, your habits become you values, your values become your destiny."
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
"Where there is love there is life."
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
"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 up 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 it I may not have it in the beginning."
"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. Buy that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know the what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no results."
"I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them."
"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment."
"It is not that I do not see angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as agelessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by consistent practice."
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