Mahatma Gandhi Effort Quotations

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Satisfaction lies in the effort not the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.

There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship.

Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.

Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

What may appear as the truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appeared to be different truths are like the countless and apparently different leaves of the same tree.

But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.

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.

No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind it.

My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.

It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.

Full effort is full victory.