Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Habits

• Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Motivational, Positive, Leadership

• Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Destiny, Judging, Watches

• Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Peace

• Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive. Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become my values. Keep my values positive. Values become my destiny.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Destiny, Positive Words, Habit

• Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Happiness, Leadership, Wisdom

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

• We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Recovery, Addiction, Moments

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

• I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Reality, Talking

• A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Brother, Evil, Purpose

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

• Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Independent, Thinking, Facts

• A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Toil, Habit

• Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Destiny, India, Habit

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.142, Grove Press

• Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Excitement, Habit, Natural

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

• Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Queens, Women, Habit

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

• The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Coward, Violence, Truth Is

• It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Voting, Progress, Politics

  Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by constant practice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Practice, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1943). “He Follows Christ”

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