Quotes by

Mahatma Gandhi

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having. – Mahatma Gandhi

The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice. – Mahatma Gandhi

What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells? – Mahatma Gandhi

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. – Mahatma Gandhi

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. – Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be inseparable part of our very being. – Mahatma Gandhi

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul. – Mahatma Gandhi

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. – Mahatma Gandhi

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart. – Mahatma Gandhi

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. – Mahatma Gandhi

A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve. – Mahatma Gandhi

Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life. – Mahatma Gandhi

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood. – Mahatma Gandhi

There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint. – Mahatma Gandhi

They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me-then they will have my dead body, not my obedience. – Mahatma Gandhi

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth. – Mahatma Gandhi

A No uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a Yes merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. – Mahatma Gandhi

I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one – Mahatma Gandhi

My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities. – Mahatma Gandhi

To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny ones faith in man and God, even ones own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith. – Mahatma Gandhi