Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Growth
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A balanced intellect presupposes a harmonious growth of body, mind and soul.
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A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
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Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort.
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Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. So doing, we know ourselves.
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To me I seem to be constantly growing. I must respond to varying conditions, yet remain changeless within.
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The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.
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Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.
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Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.
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Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself.
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Touch-me-notism that disfigures the present day Hinduism is a morbid growth.
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Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.
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Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. The changes in the season affect it. It has its autumn and its summer, its winter and its spring. It is, and is not, based on scriptures. It does not derive its authority from one book. Non violence has found the highest expression and application in Hinduism.
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Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued; and as soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst upon the world with a brilliance perhaps unknown before.
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I refuse to buy from anybody anything however nice or beautiful if it interferes with my growth or injures those whom Nature has made my first care.
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True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.
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Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
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Old as I am in age, I have no feeling that I have ceased to grow inwardly or that my growth will stop at the dissolution of the flesh. What I am concerned with is my readiness to obey the call of Truth, my God, from moment to moment, no matter how inconsistent it may appear. My commitment is to Truth, not to consistency.
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Mahatma Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- Occupation: Civil rights leader
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