Mahatma Gandhi

"I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities."

"Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up."

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."

"Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself."

"The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear."

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths."

"If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change."

"Patience is the ornament of the brave."

"There is no path to peace; peace is the path."

"True beauty is only skin deep; no, true beauty is in the heart."

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

"A person is but the product of their thoughts; what they think, they become."

"The simplest way to be happy is to do good."

"Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew."

"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."

"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."

"Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes."

"Ideals are like the stars; we never reach them, but like the mariners, we chart our course by them."

"The greatest achievements have been accomplished by those who dared to believe something was possible."

"All the world's religions, in their descriptions of paradise for the wise, place it in solitude and contemplation."

"Monotony is the law of nature. Look at nature. She never wears the same dress two days running."

"Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of the truth."

"Equality is the heart of democracy."

"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

"Fear has its use but cowardice has none."

"The good man is the friend of all living things."

"Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding."

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

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

"A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people."