Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Perfection

• Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Perfection, Imperfect

  Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

• The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Perfection, Gita, Krishna

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi”, p.18, North Atlantic Books

• Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God, and it is indescribable, untranslatable. I do believe that it is possible for human beings to become perfect, even as God is perfect. It is necessary for all of us to aspire after that perfection but when that blessed state is attained, it become indescribable, indefinable.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Blessed, Believe, Perfect

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.58, A&C Black

• Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Self, Perfection

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.68, A&C Black

• A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Expression, Practice

  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”

• The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Perfection, Fruit, Bears

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