Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahatma—applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa,—is now used worldwide. He is also called Bapuin India. In common parlance in India he is often called Gandhiji. He is unofficially called the Father of the Nation...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth2 October 1869
CityPortbandar, India
CountryIndia
If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.
A nation that is capable of limitless sacrifice is capable of rising to limitless heights. The purer the sacrifice the quicker the progress.
Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.
All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.
Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'
We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding.
Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress.
The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress.
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.
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.
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery.
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.
Adversity is the mother of progress.