It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man.

Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf.

I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it.

Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.

No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.

Those who have their hands dyed deep in blood cannot build a nonviolent order for the world.