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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher. Abdul Kalam Family, Teacher, Beautiful Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. Abdul Kalam Strength, Career, Whether God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers. Abdul Kalam Faith, Great, Strength You have to dream before your dreams can come true. Abdul Kalam Dreams, True, Come Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work. Abdul Kalam Work, Best, Alone Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model. Abdul Kalam
Leadership, Creativity, Become Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success. Abdul Kalam Success, Enjoy, Needs Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow. Abdul Kalam Today, Children, Tomorrow Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why? Abdul Kalam Great, Amazing, Success My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people. Abdul Kalam Work, Great, Travel Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness. Abdul Kalam Happiness, After, Making As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me. Abdul Kalam Great, God, Anything If we are not free, no one will respect us. Abdul Kalam Respect, Free To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal. Abdul Kalam Must, Goal, Succeed English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese. Abdul Kalam Science, Believe, Over
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. Abdul Kalam Life, Game, Person Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended. Abdul Kalam Dreams, Great, Dreamers Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance? Abdul Kalam Respect, Self, Realize In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. Abdul Kalam Death, Read, Sickness It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer. Abdul Kalam Against, Means, High I was willing to accept what I couldn't change. Abdul Kalam Change, Accept, Willing Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around. Abdul Kalam Work, Success, Bitterness We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us. Abdul Kalam Give, Problem, Defeat Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported? Abdul Kalam Technology, Everything, Why Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence. Abdul Kalam
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/abdul_kalam.html#VIc3GAQerAoc7cv4.9 9 No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion. Abdul Kalam Religion, Others, Killing Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength. Abdul Kalam Strength, Respect, Fear India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model. Abdul Kalam Must, Her, Walk Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races. Abdul Kalam Science, Beautiful, Humanity The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers. Abdul Kalam Job, Need, Become We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream! Abdul Kalam Must, Dream, Nation I love the sea. Abdul Kalam Love, Sea My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias. Abdul Kalam Age, Optimism, Less One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating villagelevel enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities. Abdul Kalam
Health, Focus, Learn Developing nations want to become developed nations. Abdul Kalam Become, Nations, Developing How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them. Abdul Kalam Law, Action, Fast India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also. Abdul Kalam Live, Without, Dream India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system. Abdul Kalam Nation, Value, Healthy We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them. Abdul Kalam Life, History, Anyone We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage. Abdul Kalam Give, Generation, Economic When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself. Abdul Kalam Nation, She, Nations Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies. Abdul Kalam Nation, Follow, Policy I'm not an expert on the arms race. Abdul Kalam Race, Expert, Arms Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy. Abdul Kalam
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. Mother Teresa Love, Hurt, Until Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. Mother Teresa Love, Smile, Beginning We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. Mother Teresa Nature, God, Friend If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. Mother Teresa Peace, Forgotten, Belong Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action. Mother Teresa Love, Home, Put Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. Mother Teresa Nothing, Person, Poverty Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. Mother Teresa Love, Without, Come We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty. Mother Teresa Greatest, Must, Kind Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home. Mother Teresa Love, Home, Care
Peace begins with a smile. Mother Teresa Peace, Smile, Begins Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. Mother Teresa Loneliness, Feeling, Poverty If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. Mother Teresa Feed, Hundred The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between. Mother Teresa Peace, Mother, Greatest We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. Mother Teresa Less, Ocean, Ourselves Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. Mother Teresa Love, Money, Giving Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work. Mother Teresa Work, Lonely, Humble Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given. Mother Teresa Peace, Love, Money The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. Mother Teresa Love, Difficult, Bread If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. Mother Teresa Love, Keep, Heard
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own. Mother Teresa Love, Someone, Rich Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Mother Teresa Love, Times, Within Intense love does not measure, it just gives. Mother Teresa Love, Measure, Intense We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. Mother Teresa Good, Smile, Simple I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor? Mother Teresa Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mother_teresa.html#68DmcAiY2Ty3wR5 t.99
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness. Mother Teresa Words, Give, Light One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. Mother Teresa Great, Greatest, Nobody The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. Mother Teresa Today, Feeling, Rather Each one of them is Jesus in disguise. Mother Teresa Jesus, Disguise, Each Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus. Mother Teresa
Work, Love, Jesus The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it. Mother Teresa Work, Happy, Miracle Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. Mother Teresa Love, Joy, Catch There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible. Mother Teresa Work, Love, Respect I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. Mother Teresa Love, Money, God There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use. Mother Teresa Live, Angry, Must Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them. Mother Teresa Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mother_teresa_2.html#479b7auOcWWE KoiD.99
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. Mahatma Gandhi Religion, Christ, Christians
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi Peace, Whole, Making The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mahatma Gandhi Forgiveness, Strong, Forgive First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Mahatma Gandhi Fight, Laugh, Ignore Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi Happiness, Harmony You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi Change, Must, Wish A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. Mahatma Gandhi Thoughts, Thinks, Product You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Mahatma Gandhi Society, Faith, Must Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi Live, Tomorrow, Die Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts. Mahatma Gandhi Faith, Alone, God Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. Mahatma Gandhi Heart, Better, Daily A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act. Mahatma Gandhi
Good, Sacrifice, Perfect A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. Mahatma Gandhi Better, Trouble, Worse Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. Mahatma Gandhi Morning, Evening, Prayer A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. Mahatma Gandhi Love, Brave, Coward The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. Mahatma Gandhi Nation, Greatness, Judged Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. Mahatma Gandhi Anger, Correct Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul. Mahatma Gandhi Relationship, Spiritual, Without Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth. Mahatma Gandhi Truth, Minority It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Mahatma Gandhi Politics, Better, Put If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm. Mahatma Gandhi Faith, Time, Patience A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. Mahatma Gandhi
History, Faith, Small Nobody can hurt me without my permission. Mahatma Gandhi Hurt, Without, Nobody An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching. Mahatma Gandhi Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mahatma_gandhi.html#qED0CeeTuuUfs4 vT.99 An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Mahatma Gandhi Truth, Become, Reason It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. Mahatma Gandhi Fitness, Health, Real Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. Mahatma Gandhi Everything, Thought, Thoughts I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. Mahatma Gandhi Leadership, Time, Today Poverty is the worst form of violence. Mahatma Gandhi Poverty, Violence, Worst Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. Mahatma Gandhi History, Look, Whole If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. Mahatma Gandhi Humor, Long, Sense
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps. Mahatma Gandhi Simple, Humility, Enough In a gentle way, you can shake the world. Mahatma Gandhi Inspirational, Gentle, Shake There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts. Mahatma Gandhi Justice, Conscience, Higher All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take. Mahatma Gandhi Give, Compromise, Surrender When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. Mahatma Gandhi Religion, Beauty, Soul Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances. Mahatma Gandhi Peace, Must, Real The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. Mahatma Gandhi Best, Yourself, Find I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following. Mahatma Gandhi God, Future, Care Action expresses priorities. Mahatma Gandhi Action, Priorities, Expresses Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. Mahatma Gandhi
Nature, Truth, Ignorance Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. Mahatma Gandhi Strength, Come, Physical Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. Mahatma Gandhi Love, Power, Fear A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people. Mahatma Gandhi Soul, Nation, Culture Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit. Mahatma Gandhi True, Violence, Spirit All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth. Mahatma Gandhi Truth, Nothing, May It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. Mahatma Gandhi Business, Religion, True A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion. Mahatma Gandhi Religion, Help, Takes Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up. Mahatma Gandhi Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mahatma_gandhi_2.html#JtPWfZfbfGtV KgfA.99 It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings. Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Themselves, Mystery Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellowmen. Mahatma Gandhi Men, Great, Works There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. Mahatma Gandhi Faith, God, Nothing A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice. Mahatma Gandhi Cannot, Moment, Compromise I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. Mahatma Gandhi Good, Evil, Violence As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. Mahatma Gandhi Age, Human, Able My life is my message. Mahatma Gandhi Life, Message A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness. Mahatma Gandhi God, Mind, Passion Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. Mahatma Gandhi Anger, Sleep, Forget The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity. Mahatma Gandhi Character, Woman, Real There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. Mahatma Gandhi
God, Cannot, Except You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. Mahatma Gandhi Mind, Body, Destroy Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession. Mahatma Gandhi Away, Stronger, Leaves What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea. Mahatma Gandhi Good, Idea, Western If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children. Mahatma Gandhi Peace, War, Children Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her. Mahatma Gandhi Nature, Woman, Service Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. Mahatma Gandhi Faith, State, Grow A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident. Mahatma Gandhi Strong, Weak, Accident In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. Mahatma Gandhi Heart, Better, Without We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it. Mahatma Gandhi Strong, Must, May Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position. Mahatma Gandhi
Life, Law, Himself There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed. Mahatma Gandhi Greed, Need Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared. Mahatma Gandhi Life, Daily, Nothing Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man. Mahatma Gandhi Greatest, Force, Mankind What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? Mahatma Gandhi Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mahatma_gandhi_3.html#Zr1qxuMTkIG B0YwF.99 The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted. Mahatma Gandhi Person, Everything, Moment Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. Mahatma Gandhi Politics, Religion, Nothing Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. Mahatma Gandhi Good, Honest, Often God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. Mahatma Gandhi God, Truth, Him I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace. Mahatma Gandhi
Anger, God, Done Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment. Mahatma Gandhi Happiness, Daily, Thinking Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. Mahatma Gandhi Victory, Effort, Lies Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. Mahatma Gandhi Woman, Old, Prayer Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment. Mahatma Gandhi Love, Justice, Law To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body. Mahatma Gandhi Life, Him, Liberty Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies. Mahatma Gandhi Faith, Must, Reason I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust. Mahatma Gandhi God, Woman, Become The good man is the friend of all living things. Mahatma Gandhi Nature, Good, Friend I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others. Mahatma Gandhi Men, Good, Myself Each one prays to God according to his own light. Mahatma Gandhi
God, Light, Each Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it. Mahatma Gandhi Goal, Lies, Reach To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. Mahatma Gandhi Heart, Better, Single Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion. Mahatma Gandhi Religion, Race, Generosity I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up. Mahatma Gandhi Love, Evil, Give I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another. Mahatma Gandhi Society, Mind, Human The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience. Mahatma Gandhi Human, Small, Still The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body. Mahatma Gandhi Life, Live, Must God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us. Mahatma Gandhi God, Truth, May I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could. Mahatma Gandhi Truth, Nothing, Done To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. Mahatma Gandhi
Believe, L Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mahatma_gandhi_4.html#eeVgI96ol7aOS f3w.99 I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. Mahatma Gandhi Die, Cause, Kill It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. Mahatma Gandhi Wisdom, Sure, Might An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Mahatma Gandhi Law, Violence, Unjust A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal. Mahatma Gandhi Good, While, Changed Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy. Mahatma Gandhi Without, Before, Joy What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope. Mahatma Gandhi Hope, True, Heart The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart. Mahatma Gandhi Change, Heart, Democracy Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all. Mahatma Gandhi May, Him, Same Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it. Mahatma Gandhi
Important, May, Whatever My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him. Mahatma Gandhi Religion, God, Truth The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem. Mahatma Gandhi Problem, Between, Difference Where love is, there God is also. Mahatma Gandhi Love, God, Also I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul. Mahatma Gandhi Children, Evil, Soul Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. Mahatma Gandhi Truth, Support, Public Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living? Mahatma Gandhi Life, Freedom, Living Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands. Mahatma Gandhi Best, God, Everything In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. Mahatma Gandhi Law, Place, Conscience It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh. Mahatma Gandhi Strength, Soul, Belief
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort. Mahatma Gandhi Without, Moral, Effort Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain. Mahatma Gandhi Heart, Come, Brain Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison. Mahatma Gandhi Life, Religion, Remember The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different. Mahatma Gandhi Different, Essence, Religions I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice. Mahatma Gandhi Woman, Sacrifice, Living Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame. Mahatma Gandhi Human, Thought, Action Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart. Mahatma Gandhi Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mahatma_gandhi_5.html#AS30sa5eK7Ek BjtM.99 God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless. Mahatma Gandhi God, Try, Sometimes I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. Mahatma Gandhi Equality, Believe, Everyone It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head. Mahatma Gandhi Day, Better, Broken
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's. Mahatma Gandhi Religion, After, Else We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts? Mahatma Gandhi May, Why, Opinions Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone. Mahatma Gandhi Everyone, Within, Voice We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study. Mahatma Gandhi Writing, Need, Study We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop. Mahatma Gandhi Nature, Anger, Human Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. Mahatma Gandhi Freedom, Worth, Err I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed. Mahatma Gandhi Believe, Die, Soldier Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be. Mahatma Gandhi Great, Live, May Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. Mahatma Gandhi Nature, Love, Must Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it. Mahatma Gandhi Important, Everything, Importance
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless. Mahatma Gandhi Sacrifice, Law, Effective Those who know how to think need no teachers. Mahatma Gandhi Teacher, Need, Teachers Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being. Mahatma Gandhi Heart, Must, Put But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac. Mahatma Gandhi Faith, God, Maniac Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress. Mahatma Gandhi Progress, Healthy, Discontent Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth. Mahatma Gandhi May, Down, Moral Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. Mahatma Gandhi Life, Education, Personal Self-respect knows no considerations. Mahatma Gandhi Knows Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mahatma Gandhi Peace, Faith, Last When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible. Mahatma Gandhi Strength, Courtesy, Restraint
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Mahatma Gandhi Need, Him, Die Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality. Mahatma Gandhi Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mahatma_gandhi_6.html#iAlofXL7Lmcx kDPo.99 Peace is its own reward. Mahatma Gandhi Peace, Reward Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness. Mahatma Gandhi Prayer, Weakness, Confession The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent. Mahatma Gandhi Truth, Violence, Pursuit There is more to life than increasing its speed. Mahatma Gandhi Society, Life, Speed Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed. Mahatma Gandhi Evil, Wrong, Needed Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent. Mahatma Gandhi Age, Religion, Reason Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith. Mahatma Gandhi Faith, Death, Religion For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion. Mahatma Gandhi
Opinion, Public, Alien I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality. Mahatma Gandhi Reason, Religious, Morality It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. Mahatma Gandhi Work, God, Quality Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom. Mahatma Gandhi Death, Enough, Die Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. Mahatma Gandhi Good, Evil, Duty Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive. Mahatma Gandhi Everything, Cannot, Results There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings. Mahatma Gandhi Everything, Law, Living Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself. Mahatma Gandhi Freedom, Give, Means I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. Mahatma Gandhi Great, Truth, Believe Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up. Mahatma Gandhi Love, Evil, Give No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. Mahatma Gandhi
Live, Culture, Exclusive The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. Mahatma Gandhi Still, Accept, Within Truth never damages a cause that is just. Mahatma Gandhi Truth, Cause, Damages Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Mahatma Gandhi Social, Ideal, Ought Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man. Mahatma Gandhi Faith, God, Double Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God. Mahatma Gandhi Faith, Great, God Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause. Mahatma Gandhi Faith, Cause, Betrays Non-violence is the article of faith. Mahatma Gandhi Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mahatma_gandhi_7.html#bYKsA3RHUH SZD3mZ.99 Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts. Mahatma Gandhi Woman, Morality, Hearts Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion. Mahatma Gandhi Religion, Heart, Matter Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having. Mahatma Gandhi
Worth, Rights, Duty Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience. Mahatma Gandhi Faith, Experience, Must Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point. Mahatma Gandhi Men, History, Die Fear has its use but cowardice has none. Mahatma Gandhi Fear, Cowardice, Use Imitation is the sincerest flattery. Mahatma Gandhi Imitation, Flattery, Sincerest Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion. Mahatma Gandhi Sense, Realised, Proportion We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party. Mahatma Gandhi Justice, Win, Party Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another. Mahatma Gandhi Truth, Another I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force. Mahatma Gandhi Union, Force, Welcome If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty. Mahatma Gandhi Hold, Duty, Conditions Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment. Mahatma Gandhi Men, Society, Must
There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good. Mahatma Gandhi Good, Worth, Name Morality is contraband in war. Mahatma Gandhi War, Morality That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake. Mahatma Gandhi Service, Noblest, Rendered Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages. Mahatma Gandhi Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mahatma_gandhi_8.html#SVbIOPbHh66i UCBj.99
