7 Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Sacrifice

Mahatma Gandhi quotes on sacrifice

56. All my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise. It has often meant endangering my life and incurring displeasure of friends.

69. There is no limit to the possibilities of renunciation.

119. Salvation of people depend upon themselves, upon their capacity for suffering and sacrifice.

143. For this cause I too am prepared to die, but for no cause, my friend, will I be prepared to kill.

191. Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

253. The Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs.

260. Everyone concerned in the better future of mankind must be deeply moved by the tragic death of Mahatma Gandhi. He died as the victim of his own principles, the principle of nonviolence. He died because in time of disorder and general irritation in his country, he refused armed protection for himself. It was his unshakable belief that the use of force is an evil in itself, that therefore it must be avoided by those who are striving for supreme justice to his belief. With his belief in his heart and mind, he has led a great nation on to its liberation. He has demonstrated that a powerful human following can be assembled not only through the cunning game of the usual political manoeuvres and trickeries but through the cogent example of morally superior conduct of life.