Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Lying

• Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Good Night, Lying, Anger

  "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater". Book by Thomas De Quincey, 1821.

• Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Peace, Truth

• 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”

• Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.154, A&C Black

• Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Lying, Fighting

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Family

• 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 future of India lies in its villages

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, India, Village

• The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hurt, Lying, Evil

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.226, Tara Publishing

• True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Lying, Form

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.159, Courier Corporation

• It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and in doing so, to resort to the purest means, i.e., to non-violence. God alone knows absolute truth. Therefore, I have often said, Truth is God. It follows that man, a finite being, cannot know absolute truth. Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Lying, Mean

• Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but against the system they administer. The roots of non-cooperation lies not in hatred but in justice if not in love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, Struggle, Men

• True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Lying, Heart

• Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, Men, Contentment

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

• In man, reason quickens and guides feelings; in brute, the soul lies ever dormant.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, Men, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.153, A&C Black

• The foundation of service and your real training lie in spinning khaddar.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Lying, Training

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

• My Hinduism teaches me to respect all religions. In this lies the secret of Ramarajya.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, Secret, Hinduism

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

• The singular secret of khaddar lies in its saleability in the place of its production and use by the manufacturers themselves.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, Secret, Use

• The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Lying, Secret

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, North Atlantic Books

• Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Lying, Noise

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.31, Courier Corporation

• A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Weed, Lying, Inward

• My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Women, Lying, Exercise

  Mahatma Gandhi (1964). “Through Self-control”

• The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, Journalism, Calumny

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

• Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Courage, Real, Lying

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”

• Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, Men, Self

  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”

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