Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

I may not be able to keep fighting for money for a living, but I will always have to fight for my dignity, because that's who I am.

No matter what they take from me, they can't take away my dignity.

You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.

But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.

I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.

We may be poor but we have our dignity.

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.

Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.

The one who fights back retains his dignity and his self-respect.

My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war pension which was peanuts. Yet we did not want for anything. We grew up with a certain parsimony, which is a nice thing. Then if life gives you more good, otherwise you get used to. I'm still thrifty.

Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants.

It does not require money to be neat, clean and dignified.

I'm the type to swallow my blood before I swallow my pride.

I know of no case where a man added to his dignity by standing on it.

I've been at the very bottom of poverty, and it's not so bad. It's even kind of interesting. You can live there with a certain amount of style.

I often think I am a better person because I lived for many years of my life with a flashlight. I have developed skills I did not think were possible - bathing with a cup of water by candlelight, for instance, and writing a story with a headlamp on.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

I grew up learning to do more with less.

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

I have a natural resistance to being humiliated.

Never dip lower than you can dip.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.