Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Effort

• Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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

• Full effort is full victory.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Persistence, Effort, Victory

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

• It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hands, Effort, Results

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

• What may appear as truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. When there is honest effort, it will be realised that what appears to be different truths are like apparently different countless leaves of the same tree.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Healing, Worry, Effort

  "Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi".

• The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, Past, Goal

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

• I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Anger, Effort

  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”

• Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Moral Growth, Effort

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Blessing, Effort

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.32, Courier Corporation

• I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Faith

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.198, Courier Corporation

• My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Effort, Followers

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.223, Tara Publishing

• But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sleep, Men, Effort

  Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.477, Jaico Publishing House

• Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Negative Words, Effort

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “Panchayat Raj”

• Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Effort, Operations, Term

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “Collected Works”

• Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Effort, Benevolent

• There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Effort, Shapes

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

• Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Effort, Soul

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

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Individual Effort, Order, Growth

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

• Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Humility, Independent

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.31, Courier Corporation

• Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Effort, Progress, Obedience

  Mahatma Gandhi (1971). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Vaccines, Effort, Action

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gita: The Mother”, Lahore, India : Indian Printing Works

• We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor should we tremble at the thought of death. We should be equiminded towards death. This is the ideal. It may be long before we reach it, and only a few of us can attain it. Even then, we must keep it constantly in view, and the more difficult it seems of attainment, the greater should be the effort we put forth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Death, Views, Long

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

• I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Practice, Giving

  Source: gandhiking.ning.com

• Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man who believes in Rama Nama would not make a fetish of the body but would regard it as a means of serving God. And for making it into a fit instrument for that purpose, Rama Nama is the sovereign means. To install Rama Nama in the heart requires infinite patience. It might even take ages. But the effort is worthwhile. Rama Nama cannot come from the heart unless one has cultivated the virtues of truth, honesty and purity within and without.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Honesty, Believe, Heart

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