Mahatma Gandhi Practice Quotations

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.

Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.

Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.

Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.

Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.

The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.

To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value.

I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby -- not even money, certainly not my soul.

Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.

When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.

It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by constant practice.

A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.

If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.

Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.

We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day.

God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.

All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.