Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader) |
Candor |
| A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
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Love |
| A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
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Action |
| A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do nothing else.
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Jesus Christ |
| A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
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Policies |
| A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
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Vows |
| A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.
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Adaptability |
| Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
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Soul |
| 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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Responsibility |
| All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.
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Injustice |
| An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
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Law and Lawyers |
| An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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Anger |
| Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
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Humanity |
| 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.
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Change |
| Be the change you want to see in the world.
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Capitalism |
| Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
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Service |
| 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.
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Rating: 3.00
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Cowards and Cowardice |
| Cowards can never be moral.
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Culture |
| Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
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Achievement |
| Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.
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Rating: 2.65
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Faith |
| Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
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Faith |
| Faith is the function of the heart.
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Faith |
| Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.
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Cowards and Cowardice |
| Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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Wisdom |
| Freedom and slavery are mental states.
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Freedom |
| 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.
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Food and Eating |
| God comes to the hungry in the form of food.
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Happiness |
| Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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Hate |
| Hatred can be overcome only by love.
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Truth |
| Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
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Wealth |
| I am not against wealth; I am against wealth that enslaves.
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Technology |
| 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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Faith |
| 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.
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Marriage |
| I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
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Inheritance |
| 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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Power |
| 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.
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Vision |
| 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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Violence |
| 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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Leaders and Leadership |
| I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
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Christians and Christianity |
| If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today.
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Humor |
| If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
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Confidence |
| 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 the capacity at the beginning.
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Asking |
| If you don't ask, you don't get.
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Service |
| In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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Materialism |
| Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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Indolence |
| 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.
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Society |
| Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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Tolerance |
| Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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Friends and Friendship |
| 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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Health |
| It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
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War and Peace |
| It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.
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