49 Best Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Leadership | Kingdom Mastery (2023)

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

“ A sign of a good leader is not how many followers you have, but how many leaders you create.”

“ A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own consciousness.”

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

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

“ Be the change you want to see in the world.”

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”

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

“ A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.”

“ 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.”

“ I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”

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

“ First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

“But success and failure are of no account. They are God’s concern, not mine.”

“It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.”

“A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.”

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

“ Strenght does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strength. When you go through hardship and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”

“ Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from indomitable will.”

“ Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”

“An eye for an eye ends up making the whole world blind.”

“ If all Christians acted like Christ, the whole world would be Christians.”

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.”

“ Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.”

“ Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.”

“ If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which consciously or unconsciously the whole world is hungering.”

“There is no path to peace, peace is the path.”

“I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the highest source. I salute that source in you. Let us work together. For unity and peace.”

“ It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.”

“ A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.”

“ Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.”

“ If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.”

“Faith must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.”

“ There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.”

“ 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.”

“Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.”

“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 on fear of punishment.”

“Where there is love there is life.”

“ The law of love could be best understood through little children.”

“The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions.”

“ A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.”

“ Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.”

“ If you educate a man you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman you educate an entire family.”

“ The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity.”

“They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.”

“ A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.”

“ I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one’s self-respect.”

“ Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.”