Mahatma Gandhi Want Quotations

If you want to change the world, start with yourself.

If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.

With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.

If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.

The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all the 12 months.

We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.

We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.

I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.

We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.

There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.

The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.

The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance.

To shirk taking of vows betrays indecision and want of resolution.

We must be the world we want to create.

I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.

I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.

I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.

All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.

No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny.

The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.

The meaning of prayer is that I want to evoke that Divinity within me.

Ramanama is for the pure at heart and for those who want to attain purity and remain pure.

With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

We must become the change we want to see.

Be the change that you want to see

If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.

If you want to change the world, be that change.

Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.

If you want a change in the world, be the change

I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

We have to be the change we want in the world.

When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.

Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.

That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.

For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.

If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.

Start changing yourself if you want to change the life around you.