Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Purpose

• 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

• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Encouragement, Freedom, Business

  "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

• Find purpose. The means will follow.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Purpose

• The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, Thoughtful

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

• The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Nature, Purpose, Life Is

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.41, Oxford University Press

• No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, Twists, Purpose

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.52, Courier Corporation

• A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Selfish, Men, Purpose

  Mahatma Gandhi (1971). “Collected Works”

• My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Purpose, Satyagraha, Experiments

• Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Civilization, Progress, Purpose

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.240, Rajpal & Sons

• 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”

• That atomic energy though harnessed by American scientists and army men for destructive purposes may be utilised by other scientists for humanitarian purposes is undoubtedly within the realm of possibility. ... An incendiary uses fire for his destructive and nefarious purpose, a housewife makes daily use of it in preparing nourishing food for mankind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Army, Science, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”

• Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the exhibition. So long as we are children we are attracted by toys, and the tower was a good demonstration of the fact that we are all children attracted by trinkets. That may be claimed to be the purpose served by the Eiffel Tower.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Children, Unique, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.11, A&C Black

• Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man who believes in Rama Nama would not make a fetish of the body but would regard it as a means of serving God. And for making it into a fit instrument for that purpose, Rama Nama is the sovereign means. To install Rama Nama in the heart requires infinite patience. It might even take ages. But the effort is worthwhile. Rama Nama cannot come from the heart unless one has cultivated the virtues of truth, honesty and purity within and without.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Honesty, Believe, Heart

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