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Wise Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
- 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…
- For a bowl of water give a goodly meal; For a kindly greeting bow thou down with zeal; For a simple penny pay thou back…
- The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.
- It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of…
- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
- If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
- There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
- You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
- I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
- You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
- My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.
- Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
- Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.
- They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.
- When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer…
- The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so…
- You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.
- The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.
- There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.
- Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
- There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.
- I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality
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