Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Giving Up

• ... 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”

• A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving Up, Satyagraha, Slogans

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

• He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving Up, Fall, Mean

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.38, Courier Corporation

• A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving Up, Men, May

  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”

• The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving Up, Religion, Fulfillment

  Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “My Theory of Trusteeship”, Bombay : Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan ; New Delhi : Gandhi Peace Foundation

• 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

• There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving Up, Truth, Two

• What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving Up, Violence, Wanted

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

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