Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Giving
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Let me say that God will send me the plan when He gives the word as He has done before now.
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Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent.
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The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.
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The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.
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If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way.
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Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.
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A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this.
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Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
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There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.
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I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice.
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In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop.
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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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I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial.
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There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but the power that purifies life which strict vigilance and a ceaseless application produce.
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The greatest help you can give me is to banish fear from your hearts.
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I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.
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A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.
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Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.
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The weak can never forgive.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
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The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means.
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It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.
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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 slightest warning, without even asking me to leave the footpath, pushed and kicked me into the street. I was dismayed. Before I could question him as to his behaviour, Mr Coates, who happened to be passing the spot on horseback, hailed me and said: 'Gandhi, I have seen everything. I shall gladly be your witness in court if you proceed against the man. I am very sorry you have been so rudely assaulted.'
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My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.
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The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.
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My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way.
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To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.
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Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.
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It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.
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Mahatma Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- Occupation: Civil rights leader
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