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Duty Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

61 Duty quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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Gandhi writes that a person may drop a right, but abandoning a duty feels like a serious fault. He says helping a drunk brother is a duty, showing that caring for others is part of responsibility. He warns that if everyone only claims rights without duties, society will fall into chaos.

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Non-cooperatio n with evil is a sacred duty.

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A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

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Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty.

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You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.

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At times, non-co-operation becomes as much a duty as co-operation.

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The true source of rights is duty.

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If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek.

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Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.

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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

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Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

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Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.

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Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter

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A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.

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Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

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Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.

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It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should…

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The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right…

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“Better one’s own duty, bereft of merit, than another’s well-performed; better is death in the discharge of one’s duty; another’s duty is…

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Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a…

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If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they…

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It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to…

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Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain…

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Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality…

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Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the…

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Our duty is very simple and plain. We want to serve the community, and in our own humble way to serve the…

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I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son…

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In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation…

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I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus…

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It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he…

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What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and…

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Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.

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Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.

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What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.

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The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.

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He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.

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Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.

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No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.

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A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

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A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore…

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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.