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Firsts Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
- Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.
- Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the…
- I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right…
- The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.
- Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.
- Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:
- It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us…
- Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff.
- I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after…
- Let our first act each morning be the following resolve: I shall not fear anyone on Earth. I shall fear only God.
- Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom…
- 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 to strength and…
- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
- I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
- Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone on Earth. -…
- Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.
- Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
- The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.
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