Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Difficulty

• Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Men, Progress

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.30, Courier Corporation

• The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mind, Weakness, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.128, Rajpal & Sons

• The essence of a vow does not consist in the difficulty of its performance but in the determination behind it unflinchingly to stick to it in the teeth of difficulties.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Determination, Essence, Teeth

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

• If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final victory is beyond question. Whatever difficulties we encounter, whatever apparent reverses we sustain, we may not give up the quest for truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Giving Up, Mean

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.77, A&C Black

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Girl, Real, Educational

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “True Education”

• The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mind, Aids, Palate

• It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, Overcoming, Charity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence”, Clarendon Press

• I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Humble, Knights, Difficult Situations

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.154, A&C Black

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