Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.

I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one’s own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise.

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters.

You do what you think is right and let the law catch up.

Every time I have done things for political reasons, I have regretted it. Every time I have done what I thought was right, it has come out all right in the end.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

As long as you know that you're doing the right thing, do not care about what other people think about you.

I have one rule I live by: Only do what you can do. That neans you're never looking outside for what's popular; you're always looking inside for what's true.

Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience.

I'm not living my life out there trying to make everybody happy. I'm doing things that I feel like are right and things that I believe in.

I was taught growing up that you always do what you believe.

A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad.

Biography, too, is liable to the same objection; it should be autobiography. Let us not, as the Germans advise, endeavor to go abroad and vex our bowels that we may be somebody else to explain him. If I am not I, who will be?

To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.

There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.

Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life.

We all have our own paths. That's the important thing of this movie. God's waiting there for everybody. Be true to who you are and true to your values - not to media, not to the influence of friends necessarily or people even that you admire. Be true to your heart and you'll find that path.

The definition of success changes. Success is to live your life with integrity and not give in to peer pressure to be something you're not. Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path; unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, then by all means, you should follow that.

Whatever your secret, live your own truth; life is too short.

The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: "Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.