Failing Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

12 Failing quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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Gandhi’s approach to failure is distilled into a short set of 12 thoughts, each echoing his commitment to non‑violence and self‑improvement. The lines provide a concise moral compass for those wrestling with setbacks.

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Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone…

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Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us.

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A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.

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I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth.

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I have in my life never been guilty of saying things I did not mean - my nature is to go straight…

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Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith…

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God's word is: 'He who strives never perishes.' I have implicit faith in that promise. Though, therefore, from my weakness I fail…

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God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find…

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When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where.…

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I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed,…

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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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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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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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