Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Self-realization is the object of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is beyond my power to induce in you a belief in God. There are certain things which are self proved and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's? — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. . .… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is… — 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
