Acceptance

Gandhi accepted people as they were. Aware of his own defects, how could he expect perfection in others? He believed in the educational and curative value of time and good deeds. Gandhi took from a person, a book, a religion and a situation that which was congenial to him and discarded the rest. He refused to see the bad in people. he often changed human beings by regarding them not as what they were but as though they were what they wished to be, as though the good in them was all of them.

The Life of Mahatma Gandhi - Louis Fischer