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Discipline Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

12 Discipline quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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Gandhi’s thoughts on self‑control echo across decades, reminding us that disciplined action can reshape societies. These twelve snippets capture his steady, purposeful voice.

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Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.

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Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.

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For winning Swaraj one requires iron discipline.

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Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention.

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

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The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline.

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Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.

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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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Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

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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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There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“Where there is life.”

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

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

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

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

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

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