Self Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi · Page 4

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

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

You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— 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

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

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

Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain…

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

— 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

All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.

— 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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi