Showing posts with label Gandhi's quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gandhi's quotes. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Famous Dedication and Determination quotes

"We will either find a way, or make one."
~ Hannibal

"Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others."
~ Unknown

"I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday."
~ Unknown

"Dedication involves making the space to let young ideas take hold; every tree was once a seed and every company was once an idea."
~ Zephyr Bloch-Jorgensen

"Some guys they just give up living, others start dying little by little piece by piece, some guys come home from work and wash up, and go racing in the streets."
~ Bruce Springsteen

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."
~ Tommy Lasorda

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication."
~ Cecil B. De Mille

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."
~ Roger Bannister

"People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be."
~ Harvey Mackay

Related:
- Famous quotes & sayings on Determination

Friday, January 8, 2010

Gandhi's quotes on untouchability

"God never made man that he may consider another man as an untouchable."



"My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity."


"To say that a single human being, because of his birth, becomes an untouchable, unapproachable, or invisible, is to deny God."


"Anger, lust and such other evil passions ranging in the heart are the real untouchables."






Also read:

- Famous quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
- Quotes on Gandhi by other famous people

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Monday, October 5, 2009

Quotes on Gandhi by other famous people

"Generations to come will scarcely believe that such a one as this (GANDHI) walked the earth in flesh and blood. I believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time"
~ Albert Einstein

"If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought, and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a world of peace and harmony. We may ignore him at our own risk."
~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I have the greatest admiration and respect for Mahatma Gandhi. He was a great human being with a deep understanding of human nature. He made every effort to encourage the full development of the positive aspects of the human potential and to reduce or restrain the negative. His life has inspired me ever since I was a small boy."
~ Dalai Lama

"In my life, I have always looked to Mahatma Gandhi as an inspiration, because he embodies the kind of transformational change that can be made when ordinary people come together to do extraordinary things"
~ Barack Obama, President, United States

"Then rose the star of Gandhi. He showed that a doctrine of non-violence was possible."
~ Arnold Zweig

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Quotes on Brotherhood and Unity

"Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable."
~ Kenyan Proverb

"In union there is strength."
~ Aesop

"The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in the only way which every ultimately does great god, that is, of helping them to help themselves."
~ Theodore Roosevelt

"So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth."
~ Bahá'u'lláh

"Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking."
~ Mahatma Gandhi

"You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it."
~ Faith Baldwin

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent."
~ John Donne

"To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them."
~ Charles de Montesquieu

"The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers"
~ Thomas Carlyle

"If you really believe in the brotherhood of man, and you want to come into its fold, you've got to let everyone else in, too"
~ Oscar Hammerstein II

Friday, June 12, 2009

Famous quotes collection on joy


"To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin."
~ Lord Byron

"There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward."
~ Kahlil Gibran

"Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself"
~ Mahatma Gandhi

"Joy is the feeling of grinning inside."
~ Melba Colgrove

"Joy is not in things; it is in us"
~ Richard Wagner

"A joy shared is a joy doubled"
~ Unknown

"He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy."
~ Kahlil Gibran

"Joy is the best makeup."
~ Anne Lamott

"We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world."
~ Helen Keller

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
~ John Keats

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Famous quotes collection on mistake

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
~ Mahatma Gandhi

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."
~ Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927

"I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones."
~ John Peel

"That's not serious; it's just human."
~ Jerry Kopke

"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."
~ Colette

"Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow."
~ Henry S. Haskins

"From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own."
~ Syrus

"Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes."
~ Confucius

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
~ George Bernard Shaw

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."
~ James Joyce

Friday, May 15, 2009

Famous forgiveness quotes - Humanity sayings

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
~ Mahatma Gandhi

"To err is human, to forgive, divine."
~ Alexander Pope

"Forgiveness is the economy of the heart . . . Forgiveness saves expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits"
~ Hannah Mor

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."
~ Honore de Balzac

"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness."
~ Josh Billings

"As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind."
~ Isabelle Holland

"Forgiveness is God's invention for coming to terms with a world in which, despite their best intentions, people are unfair to each other and hurt each other deeply. He began by forgiving us. And he invites us all to forgive each other."
~ unknown

"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another."
~ Jean Paul Richter

"Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life."
~ George MacDonald

"Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me."
~ unknown

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Quotes which are facts - famous sayings

Falling down doesn’t make you a failure, but staying down does.

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it, is committing another mistake.

Don’t learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.

Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little “extra.”

"You must be the change you want to see in the world"
~ Mahatma Gandhi

"Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune."
~ Jim Rohn

"An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded"
~ Pope John Paul I

"Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things"
~ Peter Drucker

"The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching"
~ Dennis Green

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Famous quotes on happiness


Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
~ Mohandas K. Gandhi

Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.
~ Mark Twain

Happiness does not depend on outward things,but on the way we see them."
~ Leo Tolstoy

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
~ Denis Waitley

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
~ Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
~ Albert Schweitzer

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
~ Anne Frank

Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient
~ Aristotle

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.
~ Lord Budha

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
~ John Barrymore

Independence is happiness.
~ Susan B. Anthony

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Mahatma Gandhi's quotes

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

More of Mahatma Gandhi's quotes can be found here
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