Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding.

Mahatma Gandhi

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• General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Military
  • Place
  • Impossible

• I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Great
  • Support
  • Wall

• When you cease to dream you cease to live.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Live
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Never
  • Boat
  • Dare

• My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Country
  • American
  • Car

• Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Late

• I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Feeling

• I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Up
  • You
  • Film

• Opening up Atlantic and Arctic waters to drilling would lock the next generation into burning oil and gas in a way that only makes climate change that much worse, fueling ever rising seas, widening deserts, withering drought, blistering heat, raging storms, wildfires, floods and other hallmarks of climate chaos.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • Change
  • Chaos

• I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Up
  • Love
  • Fun

• I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Great
  • Different
  • Feel

• I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it sounds so wanky - but I feel a real urge to give voices to people we don't usually hear from in real life.

  

  Kate Dickie
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • People
  • Driving
  • Hatred

• I had been writing professionally since 1988.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Writing
  • Been
  • Had

• People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Poor
  • Very

• I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Finish

• It's almost always possible to be honest and positive.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Always
  • Positive
  • Possible

• I definitely have a soft spot for women. I was raised by women - my mom and two older sisters. I've been surrounded by estrogen since I was born.

  

  Jessie Pavelka
  • Women
  • Mom

• If you've ever done something you love and go do something you like, it's like chewing on sawdust.

  

  Kimbal Musk
  • Done

• There is such a polarized discussion of economics among people like analysts, columnists, bloggers; often, they end up just saying that views other than their own should not even be discussed. I find that frustrating. There is no intellectual progress without considering lots and lots of different views.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Science, by itself, provides no panacea for individual, social, and economic ills. It can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • World
  • War
  • Science

• The one reasonable goal of social life was affirmed to be the creation of a world of awakened, of sensitive, intelligent, and mutually understanding personalities, banded together for the common purpose of exploring the universe and developing the human spirit's manifold potentialities.

  

  Olaf Stapledon
  • Life
  • World
  • Together

• We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Understanding
  • Progress
  • Swaraj