About Mahatma Gandhi

Leader of India's independence movement through nonviolent resistance. (1869-1948)

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• The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.Young India (1931)
• A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.Harijan (1938)
• If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change.Indian Opinion (1913)
• Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.The Doctrine of the Sword, Young India (1920)
• 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.Harijan (1947)
• Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need but not for every man's greed.As quoted by Pyarelal in Mahatma Gandhi: The Last Phase (1958)

More quotes on courage

• I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.Winston Churchill
• We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.Winston Churchill
• Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'Winston Churchill
• Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, 'it is the quality which guarantees all others.'Winston Churchill
• I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.Nelson Mandela
• The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.Martin Luther King Jr.

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