Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Past

• 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

• One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

• There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God not because they are faultless, but because they know their faults, they strive against them, they do not hide them, and are ever ready to correct themselves.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Past, Men, Faults

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.83, Courier Corporation

• I do not seek redemption from the consequences of my sin. I seek to be redeemed from sin itself. Until I have attained that end, I shall be content to be restless.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Past, Redemption, Sin

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.108, Courier Corporation

• It is nature's kindness that we do not remember past births. Life would be a burden if we carried such a tremendous load of memories.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Karma, Memories, Kindness

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.39, Courier Corporation

• A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Past, Simple, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India”

• In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence. Withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence. Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Humble, Past, Evil

  Courtroom statement, Ahmadabad, India, 23 Mar. 1922

• The more I reflect and look back on the past, the more vividly do I feel my limitations.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Past, Looks, Feels

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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