Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahatma—applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa,—is now used worldwide. He is also called Bapuin India. In common parlance in India he is often called Gandhiji. He is unofficially called the Father of the Nation...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth2 October 1869
CityPortbandar, India
CountryIndia
All of your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same time you did not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions
If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.
My life is my message.
Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.
As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding.
The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.
A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character.
The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities.
Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.
What will tell in the end will be character and not a knowledge of letters.
Character alone will have real effect on the masses.
Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined the morals and ruined the character of many a youth in his country.
Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.
A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.