Habit Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

13 Habit quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi’s 13 reflections on habit give a focused glimpse into his belief that disciplined daily practices can fuel larger moral goals. The brevity of the set makes it a handy starter for anyone curious about his approach.

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Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.

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The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than…

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A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.

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A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the…

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Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness.

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Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.

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Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.

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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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Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive. Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become…

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Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and…

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It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never…

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Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing the service…

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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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