Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Weakness

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  Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.54, Courier Corporation

• Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Prayer

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.240, Courier Corporation

• The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.166, A&C Black

• The weak can never forgive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strength, Being Strong, Forgiveness

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.155, A&C Black

• I wish to change there minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all poses.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Mind, Wish

• I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Order, Weakness, Nonviolence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Weakness, Affection

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Perfect, Weakness, Difficult

• Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Weakness, Violence, Satyagraha

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

• It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fear, Fearless, Weakness

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Selected letters”

• The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mind, Weakness, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.128, Rajpal & Sons

• It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Weakness, Denial

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.153, Penguin Books India

• Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Courage, Weakness, Principles

  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”

• 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

• Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Acceptance, Opposites

  "Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr: The Power of Nonviolent Action". Book by Mary King, p. 231, 1999.

• Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Weakness, Confession

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.34, Courier Corporation

• Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Doubt, Weakness, Want

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.69, A&C Black

• God's word is:
  'He who strives never perishes.'
  I have implicit faith in that promise.
  Though, therefore, from my weakness
  I fail a thousand times, I shall not lose faith.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Promise, Weakness, Failing

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.69, A&C Black

• The best way of losing a cause is to abuse your opponent and to trade upon his weakness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Abuse, Weakness, Opponents

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Weakness, Loses

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.264, Grove Press

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