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Purity Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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Mahatma Gandhi stresses that true purity starts with humility before knowledge, not before power. He says refusing to join empty celebrations can spark self‑reflection. He believes that pure actions, like winding a watch, keep the heart steady and help even children overcome a bad legacy.

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Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

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Waiting on God means increasing purity.

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True beauty consists of purity of heart.

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Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.

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To a pure heart all hearts are pure.

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Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.

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Purity of life is the highest and truest art.

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Temple going is for the purification of the soul.

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I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great…

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Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the…

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It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples.

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Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.

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Every single act of one who would lead a life of purity should be in the nature of yajna.

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A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.

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Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety.

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A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured.

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My varnashram refuses to bow the head before the greatest potentate on earth, but my varnashram compels me to bow down my…

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The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He…

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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute…

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In times to come people will not judge us by the creed we profess or the label we wear or the slogans…

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We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the white race of…

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Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.

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Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man…

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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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Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original…

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I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

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Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.

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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

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A spirit is not necessarily purer, because it is disembodied.

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True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

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If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.

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Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.

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We believe as much in the purity of races as we think they (the Whites) do...by advocating the purity of all races.

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I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.

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Ramanama is for the pure at heart and for those who want to attain purity and remain pure.

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Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?

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True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors.

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Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.

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Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will…

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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.

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“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.