M K Gandhi Quotes

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No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.
Mahatma Gandhi
Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress.
Mahatma Gandhi
Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
One should not think of embracing another religion before one had fully understand his own.
Mahatma Gandhi
The satyagrahi enters the jail cell as the bridegroom enters the bridal chamber
Mahatma Gandhi
FOR A BOWL OF WATER GIVE A GOODLY MEAL; FOR A KINDLY GREETING BOW THOU DOWN WITH ZEAL; FOR A SIMPLE PENNY PAY THOU BACK WITH GOLD; IF THY LIFE BE RESCUED,LIFE DO NOT WITHHOLD
Mahatma Gandhi
An eye for an eye just makes the world blind
Mahatma Gandhi
My life is my Message
M.K. Gandhi
A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech; he will measure every word.
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The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him.
M.K. Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi Autobiography: The Story Of My Experiments With Truth)
My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. The more you develop it in your own being, the more it overwhelms your surroundings and by and by might oversweep the world.
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.
Mahatma Gandhi (My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography)
But one thing took deep root in me—the conviction that morality is the basis of things, and that truth is the substance of all morality.
Mahatma Gandhi (An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth)
This is just another of an endless series of experiences over time that have demonstrated that the future of security prices is never predictable.
Mahatma Gandhi (The Intelligent Investor)
The instruments for the quest of truth are as simple as they are difficult. They may appear quite impossible to an arrogant person, and quite possible to an innocent child.
Mahatma Gandhi (An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth)
Well, India is a country of nonsense. M. K. Gandhi
V.S. Naipaul (An Area of Darkness: His Discovery of India (Picador Collection))
Good books are the real recorded source of good thoughts all times & every where !!
Mahatma Gandhi (Self Restraint Vs. Self Indulgence)
There are some things which are known only to oneself and one's maker. These are clearly incommunicable.
Mahatma Gandhi (My Experiments With Truth)
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. —Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Mahatma Gandhi (The Intelligent Investor)
We added that the stock component should carry a fair degree of protection against a loss of purchasing power caused by large-scale inflation.
Mahatma Gandhi (The Intelligent Investor)
It was not a translation, it was the substance.
Mahatma Gandhi (An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth)
First they ignore you , then they ridicule you, then they fight you , and then you win.
M.K. Gandhi
Tolstoy’s most lasting influence was in India. He and M. K. Gandhi had begun a correspondence in the early years of the twentieth century, with Gandhi referring to himself as Tolstoy’s ‘humble follower’. Many of their beliefs have close affinities – the doctrine of non-violence, for example, and the belief that the kingdom of God exists within man. Gandhi’s campaign of civil disobedience and passive resistance, together with his abhorrence of Western ‘progress’, owe much to Tolstoy, although his engagements in the political arena do not. And it is in the East, particularly India, where the liberal democratic tradition continued longer, that Tolstoy’s ideas remained alive.
Leo Tolstoy (A Confession and Other Religious Writings)
For a bowl of water give a goodly meal:                 For a kindly greeting bow thou down with zeal:                 For a simple penny pay thou back with gold:                 If thy life be rescued, life do not withhold.                 Thus the words and actions of the wise regard;                 Every little service tenfold they reward.                 But the truly noble know all men as one,                 And return with gladness good for evil done.
Mahatma Gandhi (The Story of My Experiments with Truth)
The intelligent investor dreads a bull market, since it makes stocks more costly to buy. And conversely (so long as you keep enough cash on hand to meet your spending needs), you should welcome a bear market, since it puts stocks back on sale.
Mahatma Gandhi (The Intelligent Investor)
The British," he (Gandhi) said, "want us to put the struggle on the plane of machine-guns where they have the weapons and we do not. Our only assurance of beating them is putting the struggle on a plane where we have the weapons and they do not." _______Cited by William L Shirer in 'Gandhi: A Memoir
M.K.Gandhi (An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth)
Against these human frailties, there stood out the man of infinite goodness, a seeker all his life of Truth, which he equated to God, a pilgrim who believed that love was the greatest gift of man, and that love and understanding and tolerance and compassion and non-violence, if they were only practised, would liberate mankind from much of the burden, oppression and cruelty of life. This was not to be, in his own country or in any other, and probably, given the cussedness of the human race, it will never be. But Gandhi gave his life and his genius to make it so, or at least more so than it had ever been – he was too wise to have many illusions, but his hope was boundless.
William L. Shirer (Gandhi: A Memoir)
My public life began in 1893 in South Africa in troubled weather. My first contact with British authority in that country was not of a happy character. I discovered that as a man and an Indian I had no rights. More correctly, I discovered that I had no rights as a man because I was an Indian. M.K. Gandhi, Defence in a trial for sedition, 1922
William L. Shirer (Gandhi: A Memoir)
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
Mahatma Gandhi (My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi)
Aruna's husband Asaf Ali was seemingly a freedom fighter but unbeknownst to his comrades, he was in fact a British agent inside the Congress Working Committee, which was collectively imprisoned on the first day the agitation started. When the British left, they forgot a few files by mistake, and one of them revealed Ali's espionage. Ali, already sent to Washington as India's first ambassador there, was recalled and sidelines as Governor of Orissa, though M.K. Gandhi intervened to spare him an overt fall from grace.
Koenraad Elst (Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism)
I realized that in refusing to take a vow man was drawn into temptation, and that to be bound by a vow was like a passage from libertinism to a real monogamous marriage. 'I believe in effort, I do not want to bind myself with vows' is the mentality of weakness and betrays a subtle desire for the thing to be avoided. Or where can be the difficulty in making a final decision? I vow to flee from the serpent which I know will bite me, I do not simply make an effort to flee from him. I know that mere effort may mean certain death. Mere effort means ignorance of the certain fact that the serpent is bound to kill me. The fact, therefore, that I could rest content with an effort only means that I have not yet clearly realized the necessity of definite action. 'But supposing my views are changed in the future, how can I bind myself by a vow?' Such a doubt often deters us. But that doubt also betrays a lack of clear perception that a particular thing must be renounced. That is why Nishkulanand has sung: 'Renunciaton without aversion is not lasting.' Where therefore the desire is gone, a vow of renunciation is the natural and inevitable fruit.
Mahatma Gandhi
In pre-Indira Gandhi days the IB was basically guided by the ‘ear marking’ scheme. This scheme enabled the IB to earmark certain IPS officers while they were under training in the Police Academy. They were earmarked on the basis of their performance in the All India Services Examination, performance in the academy and confidential reports on their shaping up process. A number of brilliant officers, including the illustrious Directors like Hari Anand Barari, M. K. Narayanan, and V. G. Vaidya were inducted through the earmarking scheme. The humble author of this book was also an earmarked officer. Of course, some officers also were inducted on ‘deputation’ from state cadres. They were later absorbed as ‘hard core’ officers. This system was abandoned after 1970 to accommodate ‘loyal and committed officers’ and also to bring the IB at par with other Central Police Organisations (CPO), like the CRPF, BSF. The IB was opened up as a waiting room for IPS officers from the less glamorous state cadres like Manipur and Tripura, Assam, West Bengal and any other state where the prevailing political culture did not suit certain officers. They used the IB to cool off and to catch up with other opportunities.
Maloy Krishna Dhar (Open Secrets: The Explosive Memoirs of an Indian Intelligence Officer)
there – to the early beginnings of the Independence movement in India. He did not aim to write an autobiography but rather share the experience of his various experiments with truth to arrive at what he
M.K. Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi Autobiography: The Story Of My Experiments With Truth (The Story of My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography))
Stating that wisdom had come to the West from the East, Gandhiji said: "..Before Jesus was Moses who belonged to Palestine though he was born in Egypt. After Jesus came Mohammed. I omit any reference to Krishna and Rama, and other lights. I do not call them lesser lights but they are less known to the literary world. All the same I do not know a single person in the world to match these men of Asia. And then what happened? Christianity became disfigured when it went to the West. I am sorry to have to say that.
M.K. Gandhi (My Non-violence: by M.K.Gandhi)
M. K. Gandhi. Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth. Dover Publications: Mineola, New York, 1983,
Stephen Cope (The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling)
He who devotes himself” M. K. Gandhi. Non-Violent Resistance Satyagraha. Dover Publications: Mineola, New York, 2001,
Stephen Cope (The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling)
The mantra becomes” M. K. Gandhi. Self Restraint v. Self-Indulgence. Navajivan Publishing, 1947,
Stephen Cope (The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling)
in trying to enjoy the pleasures of sense, we lose in the end even our capacity for enjoyment. All this is passing before our very eyes, but there are none so blind as those who will not see.
M.K. Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi Autobiography: The Story Of My Experiments With Truth (The Story of My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography))
The future depends on what we do in the present.
M.K Gandhi (AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OR The story of my experiments with truth BY M.K Gandhi)
Constitutional morality is not a natural sentiment. It has to be cultivated. We must realise that our people have yet to learn it. Democracy in India is only a top-dressing on an Indian soil which is essentially undemocratic”.65
Arundhati Roy (The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste: The Debate Between B. R. Ambedkar and M. K. Gandhi)
K. M. Munshi, a Gujarati polymath
Ramachandra Guha (India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy)
Dear Friend, Your letter of 5th June…Now for your questions. 1.      Life for me is real as I believe it to be a spark of the Divine. 2.      Religion not in the conventional but in the broadest sense helps me to have a glimpse of the Divine essence. This glimpse is impossible without full development of the moral sense. Hence religion and morality are, for me, synonymous terms. 3. Striving for full realization keeps me going. 4.      This strife is the source of whatever inspiration and energy I possess. 5. The goal is already stated. 6.      My consolation and my happiness are to be found in service of all that lives, because the Divine essence is the sum total of all life. 7.      My treasure lies in battling against darkness and all forces of evil. You have asked me to write at leisure and at length if I can. Unfortunately I have no leisure and therefore writing at length is an impossibility. Yours sincerely, M.K. Gandhi
Will Durant (On the Meaning of Life)
An armed conflict between nations horrifies us. But the economic war is no better than an armed conflict. This is like a surgical operation. An economic war is prolonged torture. And its ravages are no less terrible than those depicted in the literature on war properly so called. We think nothing of the other because we are used to its deadly effects…. The movement against war is sound. I pray for its success. But I cannot help the gnawing fear that the movement will fail if it does not touch the root of all evil—human greed. —M. K. Gandhi, “Non-Violence—The Greatest Force,” 1926
Naomi Klein (The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism)
Two more reminiscences of my school days are  worth recording. I had lost one year because of my marriage, and the teacher wanted me to make good the loss by skipping a class a privilege usually allowed to industrious boys.
M.K. Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi Autobiography: The Story Of My Experiments With Truth (The Story of My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography))
My intense eagerness to take up the Satyagraha fight had created in me a strong desire to live, and so I contented myself with adhering to the letter of my vow only, and sacrificed its spirit. For although I had only the milk of the cow and the she-buffalo in mind when
M.K. Gandhi (My Experiments With Truth: Gandhi An Autobiography)
A scientific knowledge of one language makes a knowledge of other languages comparatively easy.
M.K. Gandhi (My Experiments With Truth: Gandhi An Autobiography)
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.
M.K. Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi Autobiography: The Story Of My Experiments With Truth (The Story of My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography))