Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Growth

• Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, Adversity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Message of Mahatma Gandhi”

• Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Moral Growth, Comfort

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.75, Courier Corporation

• Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Death, Prayer

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma”

• Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued; and as soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst upon the world with a brilliance perhaps unknown before.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Growth, World, Today

• Touch-me-notism that disfigures the present day Hinduism is a morbid growth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Growth, Morbid, Hinduism

• Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Growth, Plant, Grows

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Tree, Growth, Patient

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

• Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Growth, Consciousness, Aspiration

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.151, Oxford University Press

• The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Self, Passive Resistance

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anthony J. Parel (1997). “Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings”, p.146, Cambridge University Press

• A balanced intellect presupposes a harmonious growth of body, mind and soul.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Education, Soul, Growth

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

• I refuse to buy from anybody anything however nice or beautiful if it interferes with my growth or injures those whom Nature has made my first care.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Beautiful, Nice, Growth

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Socialism of My Conception”

• 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”

• Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Growth, Spirituality

• Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. The changes in the season affect it. It has its autumn and its summer, its winter and its spring. It is, and is not, based on scriptures. It does not derive its authority from one book. Non violence has found the highest expression and application in Hinduism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Summer, Spring, Book

• True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Educational, Healthy, Growth

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

• Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. So doing, we know ourselves.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Passion, Men, Civilization

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “Hind Swaraj”, p.49, Rajpal & Sons

• A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Character, Reflection, People

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.158, Courier Corporation

• To me I seem to be constantly growing. I must respond to varying conditions, yet remain changeless within.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Growth, Growing, Seems

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

• Old as I am in age, I have no feeling that I have ceased to grow inwardly or that my growth will stop at the dissolution of the flesh. What I am concerned with is my readiness to obey the call of Truth, my God, from moment to moment, no matter how inconsistent it may appear. My commitment is to Truth, not to consistency.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Commitment, Consistency, Feelings

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