Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.

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• I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Poetry

• I went to University of Illinois team camp. And that was a big deal for me. I got MVP of the camp, but they offered another kid from the camp, which was fine. I laughed with the couple coaches I know who were there at the time, who were part of recruiting the other guy.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Time
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• I am alive when your fingers are.

  

  Anne Sexton

• The best education I have ever received was through travel.

  

  Lisa Ling
  • Education
  • Travel

• Most of all, I discovered that in order to succeed with a product, you must truly get to know your customers and build something for them.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • Product
  • Customers

• They’re evacuating the younger kids and everyone’s meeting in the Great Hall to get organized. We’re fighting.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Fighting

• Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Greatness
  • Mediocrity
  • Imitation

• I'm Adam Richman. A food fanatic who's held nearly every job in the restaurant biz. Now I'm on a mouth-watering journey to find America's greatest pig-out spots. And take on the country's most legendary eating challenges. I'm no competitive eater, just a regular guy with a serious appetite. This is my ultimate hunger quest. This is Man v. Food.

  

  Adam Richman
  • Men
  • Country
  • Job

• For me, as Yasmine, I do this every day. I wake up in the morning, and if I can do something to make someone feel better, I do it. I do not wait to be invited; I think that's the worst thing we can do. I make it my job to wake up every day and do one thing for one person and make them feel better.

  

  Yasmine Elmasri
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Job

• To have any kind of a future you've got to give up hope of ever changing your past.

  

  M. L. Stedman
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Future

• Anxiety uses imagination to picture something you don't want. Vision uses imagination to picture something you DO want. Either way, you tend to get what you focus on. Imagine a future where you shine, others thrive, and the light of hope shines brighter in the world. If you can see it, you can be it.

  

  Ian Lawton
  • World
  • Hope
  • Future

• I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.

  

  Saddam Hussein
  • Thinking
  • Hate
  • Space

• I could just cry. It's just a nightmare, a shame.

  

  Ann Miller
  • Cry
  • Shame
  • Nightmare

• Wealth usually comes from doing what other people find insufferably boring.

  

  George Gilder
  • People
  • Wealth
  • Boring

• I learn so much more in an ensemble movie.

  

  Ryan Phillippe
  • Movie
  • Learn

• I do not remember in my whole life I ever willfully misrepresented anything to anybody at any time. I have never knowingly had connection with a fraudulent scheme.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Misrepresented

• The majority, being satisfied with the ways of mankind as they now are (for it is they who make them what they are), cannot comprehend why those ways should not be good enough for everybody; and what is more, spontaneity forms no part of the ideal of the majority of moral and social reformers, but is rather looked on with jealousy, as a troublesome and perhaps rebellious obstruction to the general acceptance of what these reformers, in their own judgment, think would be best for mankind.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Judgment
  • Satisfied
  • Reformers

• Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside.

  

  William P. Young
  • Sin
  • Punishment
  • Shack

• One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby people choose and remove their rulers, there is no method of securing human rights against the state. No democracy without human rights, no human rights without democracy, and no trade union rights without either. That is our belief; that is our creed.

  

  George Meany
  • Freedom
  • Human
  • Election

• I think I am difficult to satisfy, because when I win something, I'm already thinking about the next step, and that is maybe a problem for me. I'm not enjoying the moment. I'm already on the mission to win the next trophy.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Enjoy
  • Win
  • Moment

• Envision possibility. Don't worry who else believes in it; the universe is only looking for instructions from you.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Universe
  • Worry
  • Possibility

• The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Life
  • Flower
  • Intuition

• My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Punishment
  • Creed
  • Murderers