Self Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi · Page 3

Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form…

— Mahatma Gandhi

To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance… It…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

— Mahatma Gandhi

This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.

— Mahatma Gandhi