Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Giving

• To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

• A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Spiritual, Educational

• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Encouragement, Freedom, Business

  "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

• Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teaching, Government, Self

  "Delhi Diary". Book by Mahatma Gandhi, pp. 68-70, March 1948.

• I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help it but to present to you the names of (Hazrat) Abu Bakar (RA) and (Hazrat) Umar Farooq (RA). They were leaders of a vast Empire, yet they lived a life of austerity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Names, Giving, Leader

• Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Forgiveness, Positive Thinking

• The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, Thoughtful

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

• To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ignorance, Giving, Honest

• The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Sacrifice, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Problem of Education”

• They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Wise, Respect

  "Fictional character: Mohandas K. Gandhi". "Gandhi", 1982.

• Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Nature, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.76, Courier Corporation

• A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from his disciples is, in my opinion, worthless. Whenever I talk with someone I learn from him. I take from him more than I give him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Education, Teacher, Attitude

  "Collected Works".

• Love never claims, it ever gives.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Marriage, Soulmate

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.198, Tara Publishing

• Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Giving, India

  "Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi".

• Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Revenge, Giving

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.198, Tara Publishing

• If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving, Unity, Dying

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, Freedom, Democracies Have

• In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, etc., naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain. A man who is swayed by passions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Anger, Passion, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.362, Jaico Publishing House

• Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Heart, Compassion

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.197, Tara Publishing

• I submit that scientists have not yet explored the hidden possibilities of the innumerable seeds, leaves and fruits for giving the fullest possible nutrition to mankind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving, Fruit, Nutrition

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “The Health Guide”

• 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”

• ... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must all err. I would give up milk if I could, but I cannot. I have made that experiment times without number. I could not, after a serious illness, regain my strength, unless I went back to milk. That has been the tragedy of my life. But the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving Up, Animal, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the slightest warning, without even asking me to leave the footpath, pushed and kicked me into the street. I was dismayed. Before I could question him as to his behaviour, Mr Coates, who happened to be passing the spot on horseback, hailed me and said: 'Gandhi, I have seen everything. I shall gladly be your witness in court if you proceed against the man. I am very sorry you have been so rudely assaulted.'

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sorry, Men, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.16, A&C Black

• The greatest help you can give me is to banish fear from your hearts.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fear, Heart, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

• Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Air, Giving, Ethics

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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