Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The means prepare the end, and the end is what the means have made of it.

He who picks up one end of a stick picks up the other. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

For each of our actions there are only consequences.

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.

But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

Everything you do has some effect, some impact.

Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

You cannot expect to get the effect when you neglect to create the cause.

There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.

Every person's every action has an effect.

Everything has positive and negative consequences.

There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

If you do something, expect consequences.

I believe that everything we think and feel and do produces a result and that we have to deal with that result - that result is then something that produces another result, so on and so forth, so yes, I do believe in causality.

There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.

I would not hold that we must judge by the favorable or adverse result alone whether an undertaking was just or unjust.

We ought to see clearly that the end does justify the means

Every choice you make has a consequence, every one. It's mathematic. It cannot fail; it never fails.

I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had.

As the cause is, so the effect will be.

I believe that the means you use will determine the end you receive.

We will never have peace in the world until men everywhere recognize that ends are not cut off from means, because the means represent the ideal in the making, and the end in process, and ultimately you can't reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

Show us not the aim without the way. For ends and means on earth are so entangled That changing one, you change the other too; Each different path brings other ends in view

Each choice has a consequence. Each consequence a destination.