--- title: "7 Definite Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi" description: "7 Definite quotes by Mahatma Gandhi. Plus more from Mahatma Gandhi and more Definite sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42e/mahatma-gandhi-23_behinds_no-effort-is-complete-without-prayer-wit_180283.jpg" --- > [No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/no-effort-is-complete-without-prayer-without-definite-recognition/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42e/mahatma-gandhi-23_behinds_no-effort-is-complete-without-prayer-wit_180283.jpg) > [A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/a-journalist-s-peculiar-function-is-to-read-the-mind-of-the-country/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6c/mahatma-gandhi-23_country_a-journalist-s-peculiar-function-is-to-r_435190.jpg) > [A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/a-definite-forgiveness-would-mean-a-definite-recognition-of-our/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ab/mahatma-gandhi-23_definite_a-definite-forgiveness-would-mean-a-defi_1268113.jpg) > [The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/the-spinning-wheel-means-national-consciousness-and-a-contribution-by/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/294/mahatma-gandhi-23_consciousness_the-spinning-wheel-means-national-consci_1726085.jpg) > [If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/if-untouchability-lives-hinduism-perishes-and-even-india-perishes-but/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3fa/mahatma-gandhi-23_branches_if-untouchability-lives-hinduism-perishe_2231100.jpg) > [I believe that the sum total of the energy of mankind is not to bring us down but to lift us up,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-believe-that-the-sum-total-of-the-energy-of-mankind-is-not-to-bring/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/541/mahatma-gandhi-23_believe_i-believe-that-the-sum-total-of-the-ener_2469152.jpg) > [Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/return-to-the-villages-means-a-definite-voluntary-recognition-of-the/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a46/mahatma-gandhi-23_bread_return-to-the-villages-means-a-definite_2866418.jpg) ## Other authors on Definite ## More by Mahatma Gandhi > [I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-do-not-want-to-live-at-the-cost-of-the-life-even-of-a-snake-i/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/devotion-required-by-the-gita-is-no-soft-hearted-effusiveness/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/no-nation-being-under-another-nation-can-accept-gifts-and-kick-at-the/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/so-long-as-we-fear-the-outside-world-we-must-cease-to-think-of-swaraj/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-do-not-want-a-kingdom-or-heaven-what-i-want-is-to-remove-the/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/religions-are-not-for-separating-men-from-one-another-they-are-meant/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-hold-flesh-food-to-be-unsuited-to-our-species-we-err-in-copying-the/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/it-was-only-in-south-africa-that-i-got-over-this-shyness-though-i/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [“Where there is life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/where-there-is-life/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/if-it-was-wrong-to-seek-god-in-a-stone-how-was-it-right-to-seek-him/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/the-spirit-of-democracy-cannot-be-established-in-the-midst-of/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/champions-are-made-from-something-they-have-deep-inside-of-them-a/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/my-motto-is-unite-now-today-if-you-can-fight-if-you-must-but-in-every/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-have-no-disciples-being-myself-an-aspirant-after-discipleship-and/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/man-becomes-not-the-lord-and-master-of-all-creation-but-he-is-its/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/definite/mahatma-gandhi/#itemlist", "name": "7 Definite Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi", "numberOfItems": 7, 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