Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

I attempt to do my best and do what's right, but that doesn't mean I'm always right.

I resolve for 1920 to sit down all by myself and take a personal stock-taking once a month. To be no more charitable in viewing my own faults than I am an viewing the faults of others. To face the facts candidly and courageously. To address myself carefully, prayerfully, to remedying defects.

We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.

A great nation is like a great man:When he makes a mistake, he realizes it.Having realized it, he admits it.Having admitted it, he corrects it.He considers those who point out his faultsas his most benevolent teachers.He thinks of his enemyas the shadow that he himself casts.

I'm a good person, but with many defects.

I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

I'm a highly flawed individual, as we all are, and because I was raised by Jesuits, I'm constantly, 'What is it about me and what I can do to be better?'

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I'm my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I've done that are good, and I'm proud of them. There are things that I'm really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I'm cool and ever so smart.

It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.

If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge hasn’t begun.

I think I've certainly learned a lot of lessons in humility and continue to work on that part of myself.

What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego.

We're all cracked vessels, and we're always in process, I think, every one of us.

We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.

O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'tis the mode of the day: but the acknowledgment passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them.

A lot of so-called Christian souls are not fine. People need to look inside themselves and look at the lives they're leading and fix themselves before they try to fix other people.

Whereas I formerly believed it to be my bounden duty to call other persons to order, I now admit that I need calling to order myself.

I learned that it is better, a thousandfold , for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood. In nothing was my ideal lowered, or dimmed, or grown less precious; I only saw it too plainly, to set myself for a moment beside it.

Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.