Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Strength does not come from winning. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

I may not unnerve myself while I can struggle against evil.

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.

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

It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words.

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

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

It does not require money, to live neat, clean and dignified.

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

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

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.

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

I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality

Calling them devadasis we insult God Himself in the name of religion.

Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.

People cannot hurt you without your permission.