“Proneness to exaggerate, to suppress or modify the truth, wittingly or unwittingly, is a natural weakness of man and silence is necessary in order to surmount it.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech; he will measure every word.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; the female sex.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“I have no doubt that the ideal is for public institutions to live, like nature, from day to day. The institution that fails to win public support has no right to exist as such.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“The question of vernaculars as media of instruction is of national importance; neglect of the vernaculars means national suicide.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
