Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Goals

• Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Lying, Goal

  Mahatma Gandhi (1979). “Collected Works”

• We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Being Strong, Peace

  "Gandhi on Non-Violence".

• 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

• The final goal of all religions is to realise the essential oneness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Oneness, Goal, Religion

• Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? I believe that all religions of the world are true more or less. I say "more or less" because I believe that everything the human hand touches, by reason of the very fact that human beings are imperfect, becomes imperfect.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Hands, Long

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

• A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Goal, Doe, Outcomes

• The path is the goal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Goal, Path

• I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, on matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Issues, Goal

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.270, Courier Corporation

• In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Goal, Progress

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

• Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, Positive Thinking, Self

• Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Happiness, Opportunity, Simple

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.62, Vintage

• What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Long, Goal

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

• Is the God of the Mahometan different from the God of the Hindu? Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? Wherein is the cause for quarreling?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Long, Goal, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.104, Vintage

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