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Want Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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These verses capture Gandhi’s gentle insistence that true yearning must be tempered by moral clarity. He talks about the pull of material wants versus the call of higher ideals, urging readers to align desire with non‑violence and service. The tone is contemplative, urging a quiet reassessment of what we truly need.

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If you want real peace in the world, start with children.

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We have to be the change we want in the world.

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Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

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We must become the change we want to see.

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I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

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Be the change that you want to see

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No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny.

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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

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There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.

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I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.

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If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.

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When a man wants to make up with his Maker, he does not consult a third party.

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A rose will smell as sweet by any other name, but it must be the rose of liberty that I want and…

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The hater hates not for the sake of hatred but because he wants to drive away from his country the hated being…

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With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead…

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If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.

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We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and…

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Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.

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I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so…

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"Be the change you want to see in the world"...and, if you can't be that change, then either get out of the…

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What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see…

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I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the…

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I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish…

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The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all…

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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms…

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The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to…

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Detachment is not indifference. it is the prerequisite for effective involvement. Often what we think is best for others is distorted by…

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Our duty is very simple and plain. We want to serve the community, and in our own humble way to serve the…

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Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if…

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I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of…

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Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint... Civilization , in the real sense of the term, consists not…

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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb…

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I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.

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If you want a change in the world, be the change

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Start changing yourself if you want to change the life around you.

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Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.

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The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.

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If you want to change the world, start with yourself.

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We must be the world we want to create.

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

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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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