Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Defeat

• Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hero, Defeat, Hours

  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”

• Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Sunset, Victory And Defeat

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

• Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Men, Victory

• Heroes are made in the hour of defeat

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hero, Defeat, Hours

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

• A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Believe, Defeat

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mind, Causes, Sacred

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.91, Rajpal & Sons

• The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Army, May, Defeat

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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