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Mahatma Gandhi's ideas on Discipline, collected in one place with clear source context.
"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
Source: Book: The Life of Mahatma Gandhi by Louis Fischer (Quoted conversation)
"Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep."
"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul."
"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please."
"Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education."
"The soul of reform is the reform of the soul."
"Wealth without work is one of the seven social sins."
"A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of help."
"I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else."
"Every person has a right to have his needs satisfied and no more."
"Real wealth does not consist in jewelry and money, but in providing for our basic needs through our own labor."
"Man should rest content with what are his real needs and become self-sufficient."
"Our civilization, our culture, our Swaraj depend not upon multiplying our wants—self-indulgence—but upon restricting our wants—self-denial."
"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed."
Source: Article: Pyarelal Nayyar's Mahatma Gandhi: The Last Phase
"The law of prayer is the law of work."
"A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech; he will measure every word."
Source: Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
"Without labor, nothing prospers."
"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching."
"True beauty consists in purity of heart."
"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest."
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