Mahatma Gandhi Act Quotations [Page 2]

The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.

Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.

For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.

My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my activities run into one another and they have their rise in my insatiable love of mankind

My life is my message.

Your action expresses your priorities.

Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.

Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in their nakedness that the misunderstanding between the two communities in South Africa can be removed.

Priorities lie in your actions

As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding.

Everything I have personally experienced, and that also has been expressed by the leaders of the great religions points to the fact that a global spirituality already exists and was intrinsically there from the start as God (by whatever name) is one and is indivisible - everywhere outside time and place.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result