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Spiritual Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

89 Spiritual quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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A deep inner desire can turn a person into a champion. These quotes stress that big causes need more than ideas; they require spiritual effort and non‑violent truth‑seeking. They also teach that patience can replace anger and that true difference among people is a matter of degree, not kind.

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For the poor, the economic is spiritual.

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Satyagraha is a purely spiritual weapon.

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True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

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Everyone holds a piece of the truth.

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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.

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The path is the goal.

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If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.

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But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

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Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

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I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am invincible.

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I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

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Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

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The ally we must cultivate is the part of our enemy which knows the truth.

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A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline.

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I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being…

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I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the…

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They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.

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Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.

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One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life…

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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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Khaddar delivers the poor from the bonds of the rich and creates a moral and spiritual bond between the classes and the…

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

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I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy…

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I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy,…

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Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it…

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We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment. Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions. It…

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It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully…

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Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a…

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Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is…

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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says…

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If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But…

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I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them,…

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Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the…

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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength,…

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It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience…

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I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has…

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The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

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Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

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It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.

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I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

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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.

“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to…

“Where there is life.”

If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the…

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.