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Time Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

89 Time quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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Mahatma Gandhi offers a nuanced look at how moments shape our lives, urging readers to consider the weight of each passing second. His words thread through patience, progress, and the quiet power of waiting, giving a thoughtful backdrop for anyone pondering the flow of existence.

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Take care of this moment.

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The future depends on what you do today.

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Your future depends on what you do today.

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God's time never stops.

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The future of India lies in its villages

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I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.

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The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.

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Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times.

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Every moment of my life I realize that God is putting me on my trial.

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Mutual tolerance is a necessity for all time and for all races.

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Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.

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India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no…

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All your scholarship would be in vain if at the same time you do not build your character and attain mastery over…

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The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at…

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It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves.

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“If I stop sleeping together for all time it will mean that I have been mistaken. Otherwise why should I stop it?…

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First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time.

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Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment…

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“Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end,…

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I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were…

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Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the…

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The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us…

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An ideal sanctified by the sacrifices of such master spirits as Lenin cannot go in vain, the noble example of their renunciation…

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Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten…

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There is no fundamental cleavage between Hindus and Mussalmans. We have lived in the same land as brothers for generations and what…

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The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have…

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At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous…

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“About the same time I came in contact with another Christian family. At their suggestion I attended the Wesleyan church every Sunday.…

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Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the…

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“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for…

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It was the cowards who died many times before their death.

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I cannot picture to myself a time when all mankind will have one religion.

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The more I reflect and look back on the past, the more vividly do I feel my limitations.

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The world cannot be successfully fooled for all time.

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God is continuously in action, without resting for a single moment.

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If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.

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At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation.

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At times, non-co-operation becomes as much a duty as co-operation.

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I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death…

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Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

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No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

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So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

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I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

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Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

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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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“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to…

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“Where there is life.”

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If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the…

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The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

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Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

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My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

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I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

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Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.

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