Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Passion

• It Is possible to live in peace.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Happiness, Peace, Passion

• Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Passion, Thinking

• A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Taken, Passion

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.116, Tara Publishing

• 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

• A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Success, Passion, Keys

  Mahatma Gandhi (1982). “Collected Works”

• We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. They saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.... Millions will always remain poor.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Happiness, Passion, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “Hind Swaraj”, p.50, Rajpal & Sons

• I am a passionate seeker after truth which is but another name for God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Passion, Names, Passionate

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.100, Courier Corporation

• Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Heart, Passion

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

• Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Selfish, Passion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Passion, Animal, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.140, Grove Press

• Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, Passion, Creeds

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.115, Penguin Books India

• To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Passion, Mind, Mastery

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

• The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Moving, Passion

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

• 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

• Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Uplifting, Art, Passion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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