Quotes of Mahatma Gandhi, a Words of Wisdom Collection Book

By D. Brewer

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was born and raised in a Hindu family in Western India. The honorific title 'Mahatma', meaning 'great-souled' and 'venerable', was applied to him in 1914.
Mahatma Gandhi became an Indian lawyer, and was an anti-colonialist and political ethicist. He led a nonviolent resistance movement, successfully campaigning for India's independence from British Rule. As a result, he inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.
In 1921, he adopted the loin cloth, with a shawl to wear in the winter to identify with the poor of India.
Known for his campaigns to ease poverty, expand women's rights, building bridges across races and religions and peacefully achieving Swaraj ('self-rule'), he earned worldwide respect and admiration.
Revered for his wisdom, this extensive collection of over 400 quotes made by the great man during his lifetime inspires, endures and evokes a depth of insight that few great men can match.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Dec 29, 2019
• ISBN: 9780244248802

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Quotes of Mahatma Gandhi, a Words of Wisdom Collection Book

Quotes of Mahatma Gandhi, A Words of Wisdom Collection Book

Edited by

D. Brewer

Cover Photograph Elliott & Fry

(1931)

Copyright © 2020 D. Brewer

First published in January 2020 by Lulu.com

Distributed by Lulu.com

All names, characters, businesses, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

ISBN-13: 978-0-244-24880-2

First Edition

Foreword

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was born and raised in a Hindu family in Western India. The honorific title 'Mahatma', meaning 'great-souled' and 'venerable', was applied to him in 1914.

Mahatma Gandhi became an Indian lawyer, and was an anti-colonialist and political ethicist. He led a nonviolent resistance movement, successfully campaigning for India's independence from British Rule. As a result, he inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.

In 1921, he adopted the loin cloth, with a shawl to wear in the winter to identify with the poor of India.

Known for his campaigns to ease poverty, expand women's rights, building bridges across races and religions and peacefully achieving Swaraj ('self-rule'), he earned worldwide respect and admiration.

Revered for his wisdom, this extensive collection of over 400 quotes made by the great man during his lifetime inspires, endures and evokes a depth of insight that few great men can match.

Inspiration

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

What barrier is there that love cannot break?

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

A ‘No’ uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.

Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.

My life is my message.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.

Our greatest ability