Quotes by Gandhi, Mahatma

"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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"Poverty is the worst form of violence."

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

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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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."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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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 the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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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."

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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"Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason."

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

Gandhi, Mahatma on responsibility
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"There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint."

Gandhi, Mahatma on restraint
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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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"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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"Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock."

Gandhi, Mahatma on self-control
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"They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them."

Gandhi, Mahatma on self-respect
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"Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large."

Gandhi, Mahatma on service
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"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."

Gandhi, Mahatma on service
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"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

Gandhi, Mahatma on service
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"Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being."

Gandhi, Mahatma on society
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"Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value."

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"Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it."

Gandhi, Mahatma on action
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"A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else."

Gandhi, Mahatma on action
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"A No uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a Yes merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble."

Gandhi, Mahatma on candor
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"Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed."

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"Truth never damages a cause that is just."

Gandhi, Mahatma on causes
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"Be the change you want to see in the world."

Gandhi, Mahatma on change
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"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

Gandhi, Mahatma on change
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"We must become the change we want to see."

Gandhi, Mahatma on change
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"Those who know how to think need no teachers."

Gandhi, Mahatma on teacher
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"I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease."

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"Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause."

Gandhi, Mahatma on tolerance
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"Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress."

Gandhi, Mahatma on truth
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"Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another."

Gandhi, Mahatma on truth   

"The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent."

Gandhi, Mahatma on truth
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