Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Renunciation which is natural does not herald its coming by the blowing of trumpets. It comes in imperceptibly without letting anyone notice… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I have in all humility felt that perfect renunciation [of fruits] is impossible without perfect observance of ahimsa in every shape and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
An ideal sanctified by the sacrifices of such master spirits as Lenin cannot go in vain, the noble example of their renunciation… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Renunciation made for the sake of service is an ineffable joy of which none can deprive anyone, because that nectar springs from… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
