Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Leadership
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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.
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Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.
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A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.
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The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.
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Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
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A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
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The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
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Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
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Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
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Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
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To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may - this is the. . . gift of leadership.
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
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There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.
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The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
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When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.
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If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.
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A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
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Mahatma Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- Occupation: Civil rights leader
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