Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Leadership

• 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

• The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Fear

• A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.163, Vintage

• A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Spiritual, Educational

• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Strength, Leadership

• A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Determination, Optimistic

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.55, Courier Corporation

• When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Needs, Angry

• A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Faith

• Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Leadership

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Family

• Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Socialism of My Conception”

• I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Time

• If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Faith, Character

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

• 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

• Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Flattery, Imitation

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.21, Rajpal & Sons

• The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Self Esteem, Self Confidence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (2010). “Wof : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi”, p.84, Penguin Books India

• There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Spiritual, People

• No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Teacher, Art And Culture

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.173, Rajpal & Sons

• A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Perseverance, Practice

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

• To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may - this is the. . . gift of leadership.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Gun, May

• Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

• Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Errors, Stronger

• The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Evil, Interesting

  Mahatma Gandhi (1930). “Young India”

• Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Persistence, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.35, A&C Black

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