Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

If one acts rightly and honestly, it is difficult to decide whether it is the effect of integrity or skill.

Good moral character is the first essential in a man.

As in everything else, I must start with myself. That is: in all circumstances try to be decent, just, tolerant, and understanding, and at the same time try to resist corruption and deception. In other words, I must do my utmost to act in harmony with my conscience and my better self.

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

And that whole do-able/undo-able thing? Yeah. Need I point out that neither Ruth nor I have ever "done" anybody in our lives?

Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.

Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Act with honor, and Honor will aid you

The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.

Rules cannot take the place of character.

It is a fair adornment of a man and a great convenience both to himself and to all those with whom he converses and deals, to act uprightly, uniformly, and consistently. The practice of piety frees a man from interior distraction and from irresolution in his mind, from duplicity or inconstancy in his character, and from confusion in his proceedings, and consequently securing for others freedom from deception and disappointment in their transactions with him.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience to authority, and while it is often consistent with and reinforced by religious belief, it is not piety.

A big part of honesty is self-discipline, personal resolve, and taking pride in who you are as a person and what each action means to your character.

Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

Attend well to your character, and your reputation will look out for itself.

Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.