Mahatma Gandhi Want Quotations

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

We must be the world we want to create.

To shirk taking of vows betrays indecision and want of resolution.

The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance.

The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.

There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.

We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.

I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.

We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.

We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.

The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all the 12 months.

If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.

With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.

If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.

Ramanama is for the pure at heart and for those who want to attain purity and remain pure.

The meaning of prayer is that I want to evoke that Divinity within me.

The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.

No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny.

All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.

I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.

I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.

I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.

For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.

That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.

Start changing yourself if you want to change the life around you.

Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.

When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.

We have to be the change we want in the world.

I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

If you want a change in the world, be the change

Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.

If you want to change the world, be that change.

Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.

If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

Be the change that you want to see

We must become the change we want to see.

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body