Gandhi Quotes And Sayings

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“Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.”
– Gandhi

“Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.”
– Gandhi

“Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.”
– Gandhi

“Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words”
– Gandhi

“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
– Gandhi

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

“Love never claims, it ever gives; love never suffers, never resents, never revenges itself. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.”
– Gandhi

“Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable”
– Gandhi

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
– Gandhi

“Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.”
– Gandhi

“Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself”
– Gandhi

“It is unwise to be too sure of ones own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”
– Gandhi

“It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.”
– Gandhi

“It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the worlds religions is a sacred duty.”
– Gandhi

“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.”
– Gandhi

“It is easy enough to be friendly to ones friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.”
– Gandhi

“It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business”
– Gandhi

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

“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

“Indolence is a delightful but distressing state, we must be doing something to be happy.”
– Gandhi

“In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.”
– Gandhi

“In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.”
– Gandhi

“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
– Gandhi

“In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.”
– Gandhi

“If you’d be loved, be worthy to be loved.”
– Gandhi

“If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you”
– Gandhi

“If you don’t find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.”
– Gandhi

“If we wish to create a lasting peace we must begin with the children.”
– Gandhi

“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.”
– Gandhi

“If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.”
– Gandhi

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