"The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity."

Gandhi, Mahatma on self-confidence
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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."

Gandhi, Mahatma on friends and friendship
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

Gandhi, Mahatma on happiness
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"Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good."

Gandhi, Mahatma on evil
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"To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man."

Gandhi, Mahatma on history and historians
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"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

Gandhi, Mahatma on humankind
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"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the atomic age -- as in being able to remake ourselves."

Gandhi, Mahatma on humankind
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"Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible."

Gandhi, Mahatma on idleness
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"Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame."

Gandhi, Mahatma on indolence
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"The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states."

Gandhi, Mahatma on freedom
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"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right."

Gandhi, Mahatma on freedom
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"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within."

Gandhi, Mahatma on dictators and dictatorship
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"Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? 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."

Gandhi, Mahatma on evil
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"Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies."

Gandhi, Mahatma on faith
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"Non-violence is the article of faith."

Gandhi, Mahatma on faith
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"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into."

Gandhi, Mahatma on faith
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"I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith."

Gandhi, Mahatma on faith
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"God comes to the hungry in the form of food."

Gandhi, Mahatma on food and eating
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

Gandhi, Mahatma on forgiveness
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"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people."

Gandhi, Mahatma on leadership
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"There is more to life than simply increasing its speed."

Gandhi, Mahatma on life
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"Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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"What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?"

Gandhi, Mahatma on profits
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"It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity."

Gandhi, Mahatma on quality
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"All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities."

Gandhi, Mahatma on responsibility
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"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

Gandhi, Mahatma on revenge
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"Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having."

Gandhi, Mahatma on right and rightness
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"The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice."

Gandhi, Mahatma on sacrifice
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"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory."

Gandhi, Mahatma on 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."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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"Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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"Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding."

Gandhi, Mahatma on anger
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"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"Patience means self-suffering."

Gandhi, Mahatma on patience
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"If you don't ask, you don't get."

Gandhi, Mahatma on ask
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"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem."

Gandhi, Mahatma on potential
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"I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world."

Gandhi, Mahatma on power
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"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS."

Gandhi, Mahatma on despair
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