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Mahatma Gandhi approached Mental Toughness from first principles, cutting through assumptions to reveal fundamental truths. This archive captures that thinking, giving you access to frameworks you can build on. Every quote is sourced and contextualized, allowing you to understand their reasoning. Use this when you need to think clearly about Mental Toughness without inheriting broken mental models.
"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."
"Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn."
"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness."
"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest."
"It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e., hate, ruled us, we should have become extinct long ago."
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
"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."
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems."
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching."
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
"Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good."
"Patience means self-suffering."
"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."
"Fear has its use but cowardice has none."
"Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress."
"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."
"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."
"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."
"Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it."
"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."
"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory."
"My life is my message."
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
"The future depends on what you do today."
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
"Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisites for acquiring learning of any kind."
"Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served."
"Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it."
"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."
"Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear."
"There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent."
"Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man."
"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary."
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