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Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress.

Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspiring, Attitude, Vision

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.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Faith, Hope
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.30, Courier Corporation

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom, Sheep, People
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.27, Rajpal & Sons

Where there is love there is life.

Mahatma Gandhi
Love, Inspirational, Life
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.119, Courier Corporation

A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.

Mahatma Gandhi
Spiritual, Flames, Thousand

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.

Mahatma Gandhi
Humility, Unwise, Wisest
Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.

Mahatma Gandhi
Spiritual, Flow, Produce

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Happiness, Success

Love is the law of life.

Mahatma Gandhi
Love, Marriage, Law

Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.

Mahatma Gandhi
Tools, Development, Consciousness

You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.

Mahatma Gandhi
Life, Sad, Wise

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Wise, Peace
Gandhi, Mahatma “Inspiring Thoughts”, Rajpal & Sons

The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.

Mahatma Gandhi
Family, Friends, Community
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.115, A&C Black

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

Mahatma Gandhi
Peace, Justice, Court
Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Collected Works”

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Wise, Bad Ass
Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.277, Vintage

You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.

Mahatma Gandhi
Cheating, Balance, Succeed

Make injustice visible.

Mahatma Gandhi
Injustice, Visible

Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.

Mahatma Gandhi
Teaching, Government, Self
"Delhi Diary". Book by Mahatma Gandhi, pp. 68-70, March 1948.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.

Mahatma Gandhi
Country, Freedom, Opportunity

A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Believe, Men
Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.

Mahatma Gandhi
Animal, Pet, Towns

Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.

Mahatma Gandhi
Deeds, Seeds

We must be the world we want to create.

Mahatma Gandhi
World, Want

The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision.

Mahatma Gandhi
Spiritual, Thinking, Vision
"All Men Are Brothers".

My life is my message.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Life, Yoga
Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.8, Oxford University Press