Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Failing

• When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wise, Spiritual, Prayer

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.63, Courier Corporation

• I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Struggle, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.56, A&C Black

• Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Failing, Appeals

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Opponents, Failing, Should

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Perfect, Failing, Enough

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)”

• The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Moving, Passion

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.56, A&C Black

• God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Trying, Body

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

• Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Education, Learning, Temptation

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.40, Courier Corporation

• Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Shining, Religion, Battle

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.224, Tara Publishing

• Our duty is very simple and plain. We want to serve the community, and in our own humble way to serve the Empire. We believe in the righteousness of the cause, which it is our privilege to espouse. We have an abiding faith in the mercy of the Almighty God, and we have firm faith in the British Constitution. That being so, we should fail in our duty if we wrote anything with a view to hurt.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hurt, Believe, Humble

  Mahatma Gandhi (1960). “1903-1905”

• I have in my life never been guilty of saying things I did not mean - my nature is to go straight to the heart and if often I fail in doing so for the time being, I know that Truth ultimately makes itself heard and felt, as it has often done in my experience.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Mean, Done

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.67, A&C Black

• God's word is:
  'He who strives never perishes.'
  I have implicit faith in that promise.
  Though, therefore, from my weakness
  I fail a thousand times, I shall not lose faith.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Promise, Weakness, Failing

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.69, A&C Black

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