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Sacrifice Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

46 Sacrifice quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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Gandhi sees sacrifice as a path that should bring joy, not sorrow. He talks about giving up freedom or even a prison cell to protect truth, and he believes a nation that can sacrifice without limit can reach great heights. He also links sacrifice to inner peace and spiritual growth.

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“Sacrifice is joy.”

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God accepts the sacrifice of the pure in heart.

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A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.

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The State is the sum total of the sacrifice, on its behalf, of its members.

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In the Gita continuous concentration on God is the king of sacrifices.

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Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.

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Selfless action is a source of strength.

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The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

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The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God…

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For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present.

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For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage…

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If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my…

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Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over…

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Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the…

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I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth.

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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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No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is 'making…

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A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the…

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Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining…

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I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to…

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There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student's mind,…

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The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer…

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Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in…

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Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over…

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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. . .…

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I care so deeply about this matter that I'm willing to take on the legal penalties, to sit in this prison cell,…

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Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying…

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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength,…

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I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

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It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.

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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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“The righteous men who eat the residue of the sacrifice are freed from all sin, but the wicked who cook for themselves…

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The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity.

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If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.

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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most…

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I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.

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A nation that is capable of limitless sacrifice is capable of rising to limitless heights. The purer the sacrifice the quicker the…

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My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice.

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I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.

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Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.

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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.