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Action Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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Mahatma Gandhi stresses that doing something matters more than just thinking about it. He shows willingness to suffer, even prison, for a cause he believes in, and calls blind admiration useless. He warns that fearing the outcome can block the goal, while non‑violence may feel risky but can bring truth.

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It's not just words. Action expresses priorities.

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What is faith if it is not translated into action?

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All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action

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God never occurs to you in person but always in action.

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Selfless action is a source of strength.

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Priorities lie in your actions

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Without action, you aren't going anywhere.

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Your action expresses your priorities.

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My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action.

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God is continuously in action, without resting for a single moment.

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Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action.

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Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa.

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Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

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Nonviolent action without the co-operation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result.

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Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.

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God has given us only a limited sphere of action and a limited vision.

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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

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If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.

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All of your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same time you did not…

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I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of…

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A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.

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All your scholarship would be in vain if at the same time you do not build your character and attain mastery over…

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We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.

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It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I…

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I care so deeply about this matter that I'm willing to take on the legal penalties, to sit in this prison cell,…

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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…

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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. . .…

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It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be…

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For a bowl of water give a goodly meal; For a kindly greeting bow thou down with zeal; For a simple penny…

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Let your thoughts be positive for they will become your words. Let your words be positive for they will become your actions.…

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A true soldier does not argue as he marches, how success is going to be ultimately achieved. But he is confident that…

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The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above…

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Action expresses priorities.

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The best politics is right action.

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For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present.

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There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions.

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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

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All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind.

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Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.

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Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.

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So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

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The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.