Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Character
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If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.
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A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
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Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.
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The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.
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No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit.
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The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.
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Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.
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Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.
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As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding.
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Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics... The things that will destroy us are: politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, knowledge without character, business without morality.
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One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole
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Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.
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In times to come people will not judge us by the creed we profess or the label we wear or the slogans we shout, but, by our work, industry, sacrifice, honesty and purity of character.
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Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined the morals and ruined the character of many a youth in his country.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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Character alone will have real effect on the masses.
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Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
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A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.
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Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.
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My life is my message.
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All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.
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A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character.
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A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
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What will tell in the end will be character and not a knowledge of letters.
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Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.
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The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities.
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If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.
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Mahatma Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- Occupation: Civil rights leader
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