Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Progress

• The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dog, Nature, Greatness

• Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Honesty, Future

• I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Philosophical, Animal

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.151, Rajpal & Sons

• We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Being Strong, Peace

  "Gandhi on Non-Violence".

• 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

• Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspiring, Attitude, Vision

• Adversity is the mother of progress.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mother, Adversity, Progress

  Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

• Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Struggle, Healthy

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

• One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Animal, Greatness

• Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings... I abhor [animal] experimentation with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence... The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Animal, Greatness, Men

• I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Technology, Suffering, Progress

  1921 Speech, 13 Oct.

• In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Goal, Progress

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

• Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Progress, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1973). “Collected Works”

• Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Progress, India, Pace

• Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Men, Progress

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.30, Courier Corporation

• We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Understanding, Progress, Ifs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Civilization, Progress, Purpose

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.240, Rajpal & Sons

• All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Education, Country, Progress

  Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

• It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Voting, Progress, Politics

  Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the material progress that Western science has made. Ancient India has survived because Hinduism was not developed along material but spiritual lines.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Eye, Discovery

• I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, Heart, Greatest Fear

  Interview with Nirmal Kumar Bose on 9-10 November 1934, Modern Review, p. 412, October 1935.

• Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Effort, Progress, Obedience

  Mahatma Gandhi (1971). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Progress, Add, Inheritance

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.167, A&C Black

• Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Moving, Air, Dust

• A nation that is capable of limitless sacrifice is capable of rising to limitless heights. The purer the sacrifice the quicker the progress.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sacrifice, Progress, Rising

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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