Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.
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Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints.
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Robust faith in oneself and brave trust of the opponent, so called or real, is the best safeguard.
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Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
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Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.
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It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
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Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.
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God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.
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My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities.
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Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
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I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.
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But all my life though, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise. I saw in later life that this spirit was an essential part of Satyagraha. It has often meant endangering my life and incurring the displeasure of friends. But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
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Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.
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An India awakened and free has a message of peace and goodwill to a groaning world.
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Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive. Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become my values. Keep my values positive. Values become my destiny.
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Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.
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I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.
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The world cannot be successfully fooled for all time.
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At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves.
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Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.
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If we are to stand the final heat of the battle, we must learn to stand our ground in the face of cavalry or baton charges and allow ourselves to be trampled under horses' hooves, or be bruised with baton charges.
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Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.
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Under democracy individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.