“Effort is within man’s control, not the fruit thereof.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am
invincible.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I can think of only one remedy for this awful state of things—that educated men should make a point of travelling thirdclass and reforming the habits of the people, as also of never letting the railway authorities rest in peace, sending in complaints wherever necessary, never resorting to bribes or any unlawful means for obtaining their own comforts, and never putting up with infringements of rules on the part of anyone concerned.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“To Believe is something, and do not live it, is dishonest..”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“For it is an unbroken torture to me that I am still so far from Him, who, as I fully know, governs every breath of my life, and whose offspring I am. I know that it is the evil passions within that keep me so far from Him, and yet I cannot get away from them. But I must close. I can only take up the actual story in the next chapter. M.K. Gandhi The Ashram, Sabarmati, Ahmedabad 26th November, 1925”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified; but the picture is imaginary. That does not mean that Krishna, the adored of his people, never lived. But perfection is imagined. The idea of a perfect incarnation is an after growth.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Hence, we should not be attached even to a good cause. Only then will our means remain pure and our actions too.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The question of vernaculars as media of instruction is of national importance; neglect of the vernaculars means national suicide.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“With my meagre knowledge of my own religion i do not want to belong to any religious body”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.”
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Mahatma Gandhi