Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi 2

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

Mahatma Gandhi

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

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I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

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I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

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I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

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I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

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I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

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I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

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If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

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If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

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Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

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In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

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Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

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Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

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It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

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It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

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It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

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It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

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Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

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Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

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Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

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

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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

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Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

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Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

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Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

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Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

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Morality is contraband in war.

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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

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Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

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My life is my message.

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My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

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Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

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Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

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Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

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Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

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Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

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Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

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Peace is its own reward.

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

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Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

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Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

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Self-respect knows no considerations.

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Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

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