Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Virtue

• You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Faith, Hope

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.30, Courier Corporation

• One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

• Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers, cowardice would always inflict suffering. Perfect non-violence is the highest bravery. Non-violent conduct is never demoralising; cowardice always is.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Courage, Hate, Spring

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

• Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Rewards, Virtue, Nations

• Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Truth, War

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Gandhiji Expects: What the Father of the Nation Expected of People's Representatives”

• Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Caves, Virtue, Dwellers

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

• Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Virtue, Social, Nonviolence

• In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Self, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Want, Virtue, Claims

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.32, Hackett Publishing

• Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Coward, Virtue

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

• Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Lying, Noise

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.31, Courier Corporation

• All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Brotherhood, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

• Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Class, Sin, Virtue

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Collected Works”

• That which is inherent in man is his virtue.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Virtue, Mankind

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

• A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Virtue, Prove

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.105, Tara Publishing

• Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Evil, Agents

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.43, Courier Corporation

• Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Teacher, Offering

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.98, A&C Black

• Forgiveness is the virtue of the brave.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Brave, Virtue

  Gandhi (Mahatma) (1965). “Collected works”

• Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Beautiful, Men, Two

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.45, Courier Corporation

• 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

• Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spring, Hate, Vices

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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