Vow Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

14 Vow quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi’s fourteen reflections on vows distill his philosophy of purposeful promise into bite‑size insights. Each quote underscores the moral weight he placed on personal and collective dedication.

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It goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking.

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Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.

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A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition.

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To shirk taking of vows betrays indecision and want of resolution.

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Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.

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A person unbound by vows can never be absolutely relied upon.

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My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken.

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A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character.

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The essence of a vow does not consist in the difficulty of its performance but in the determination behind it unflinchingly to…

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The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance.

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Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

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A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can…

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What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or…

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A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of…

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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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“Where there is life.”

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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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