Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

Mahatma Gandhi

• Goal
• Victory
• Satisfaction
• Recognition

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• There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Credit
  • Satisfaction
  • Truck

• What I heard was that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory. He'll have Social Security reform passed, that he'll have tax reform passed, that he'll have conservative judges on the courts.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Victory
  • Security
  • Tax

• I don't mind having these relatives. I'll give them a little, since they all prayed for my victory.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Mind
  • Victory
  • Give

• Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Effort
  • Goal
  • Achieve

• The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Goal

• The Party of the Regions has won a convincing victory. We are ready to undertake responsibility for forming the Cabinet and we are calling on everyone to join us.

  

  Viktor Yanukovych
  • Party
  • Responsibility
  • Victory

• I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don't. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Myself
  • Goal
  • Succeed

• My own personal goal is I just hope to still write songs and kind of let that sustain me as a job. If I could never have a 9-to-5 job, and making a living doing this, it'd just be incredible.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Job
  • Hope
  • Goal

• I don't like getting people upset, so that's not my goal. But I like putting people in situations where how they respond says a lot about them.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • People
  • Goal
  • Upset

• I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • History
  • Fighting

• It was never my goal to be an actor.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Never
  • Goal
  • Actor

• Even the best scientists are often insecure and feel the need for recognition.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Best
  • Need
  • Recognition

• Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Real
  • Happiness
  • Goal

• Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Goal
  • Being
  • Gentleman

• It is natural for us, as human beings, to look forward. Our eyes naturally look ahead. In this sense, we are made for moving toward a goal.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Eyes
  • Moving
  • Goal

• I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things, but I don't view those effects as good or bad. If a context and a goal is defined, I could say if it's good or bad. But overall, I don't view things as good or bad.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Goal

• My next goal is for Shenzhen to become the model of environmentally-friendly and sustainable development.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Goal
  • Model
  • Development

• What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Law
  • Control
  • Victory

• The goal of the Creator is for each entity to make a conscious choice to again seek Oneness, out of our own free will - not because anyone else forced us to. If we are told what to do and what to believe, then we have learned nothing and will not make any progress. Perhaps the single most basic realization to make is that we live in a loving Universe. If we are all One Being, then it is foolish for us to hate anyone, as we are only hating ourselves.

  

  David Wilcock
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Free

• I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • House
  • Sunshine

• Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Life
  • Past
  • Interesting

• Writing is a deeply immersive experience. When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice. I have a low boredom threshold and I like intensity – writing is a way of escaping the quotidian.

  

  Monica Ali
  • Writing
  • House
  • Flying

• The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Goal
  • Victory
  • Satisfaction