Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Compromise

• I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby -- not even money, certainly not my soul.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Party, Years, Practice

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.35, Vintage

• All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving, Fundamentals, Compromise

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

• Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Practice, Compromise

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

• Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

• A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Expression, Practice

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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