Some of Gandhi's famous quotations:

"Be the change you want to see in the world."

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

"I will not be a traitor to God to please the whole world."
This is one worth reading twice!

"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress."

"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love."

"In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness."

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, ALWAYS."

"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action."

"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition."

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

"The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice."
This is worth reading again!

"I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom'. I often err and miscalculate… My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species."

"Whatever striking things I have done in life, I have not done prompted by reason but prompted by instinct, I would say, God."

"I am a man of faith. My reliance is solely on God. One step is enough for me. The next step He will make clear to me when the time for it comes."

The above quotes were selected over a period of time from the Internet, and before putting it in place here, I checked and the reference (html link) was no longer in service. The above certainly mirror the virtues and qualities that made Gandhi more famous after he was gone, although certainly his life was not exactly easy to ignore either.

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Unfortunately, for me, and I suppose this could be true for any number of people I once thought I knew or criticized because I what I thought I knew about them – it is sad that I never knew of these quotes earlier. One instance I read of that really prompted me to change some thoughts about Gandhi was when he was boarding a train, one of his shoes slipped off his foot. To the utter consternation of his fellow travelers, he reached down and TOOK OFF his other shoe and threw it towards where the other shoe was! Knowing what must have been in the on-lookers mind, Gandhi said, "Now when the poor soul finds one shoe, the other will not be far from his view." (my paraphrase of his words) I wonder how many "loyal church-going Christian or Jewish people" would have entertained that thought? I am not pleased to know my thoughts would have been more like jumping off the train to get my lost shoe! The Wordwright