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Self Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

109 Self quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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A courageous man choosing death over lost self‑respect highlights the value Gandhi places on inner dignity. His quotes urge self‑reliance, disciplined stages of life, and a willingness to suffer for freedom. They also warn against the trap of daily self‑righteousness.

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There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

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All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.

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Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.

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At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.

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A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.

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Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength.

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Self-realization is the object of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures.

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Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God.

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Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.

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A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.

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It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.

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If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.

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You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.

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All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

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My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.

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Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.

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The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to…

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To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self.…

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My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak…

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It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama…

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The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose…

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Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and…

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Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of…

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Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength…

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Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over…

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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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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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I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It…

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In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted…

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The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully…

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Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act…

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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with…

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Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.

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They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

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Good government is no substitute for self-government.

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I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

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Self-respect knows no considerations.

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Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.

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Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.

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A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.

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I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death…

Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

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.