Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

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.

The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.

The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.

Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.

For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.

Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me.

Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable.

Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.

In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

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

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

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

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.

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

We must become the change we want to see.

There are seven things that will destroy us: Wealth without work; Pleasure without conscience; Knowledge without character; Religion without sacrifice; Politics without principle; Science without humanity; Business without ethics.

I cannot teach you violence,as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before anyone even at the cost of your life.

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.

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

It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage

The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.