Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth

. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed . . . so long as our manners and principles remain sound, there is no danger.

No matter what is the environment around you, it is always possible to maintain your brand of integrity

If, on a full and final review, my life and practice shall be found unworthy of my principles, let due infamy be heaped on my memory; but let none be led thereby to distrust the principles to which I proved recreant, nor yet the ability of some to adorn them by a suitable life and conversation. To unerring time be all this committed.

Be strong. Don't be a follower. Always do the right thing.

The difference between a great man and a little man is their commitment to Integrity and Hard Work

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Don't violate your own code of values and ethics, but don't waste energy trying to make other people violate theirs.

I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right.

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

I do the best I know how, the very best I can, And I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, What is said against me won't count; If it brings me out wrong, Ten angels swearing that I was right Would have made no difference.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

I do my research, and if I'm supporting something, then it's because it aligns with me morally and ethically.

I'll never take the easy way out.

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or too base for what he wants to offer.

The one thing I say, I will invest in anything - I don't care what it is - as long as it doesn't cut across my ethical code, because at the end of the day I want to be able to live with myself. I want to feel proud of what I do.

What are the values that give meaning? What is the line that you will never cross, because on this side you're good, and on this side you're evil.

I'm not Mary Poppins, but I think I functioned with integrity.

People can say what they want to say, but at the end of the day, I can look at myself in the mirror. I know how hard I fought. I know how many storylines I pitched. I know how hard I worked in the ring.