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Mahatma Gandhi approached Perseverance 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 Perseverance without inheriting broken mental models.
"Patience and perseverance, if we have them, overcome mountains."
"Full effort is full victory."
"A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success."
"The future depends on what you do today."
"Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a middle and an end."
"Through our failure we shall learn."
"Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men."
"It is the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important."
"The hard road of self-restraint is the only road to freedom."
"Non-violence is a plant of slow growth. It grows imperceptibly, but surely."
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
"The history of the world is full of instances of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity."
"The path of truth is as narrow as it is sometimes difficult."
"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment."
"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary."
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
"Infinite patience is needed to conquer the world."
"Imitation is the death of perseverance if one does not find their own path."
"We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it."
"I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth."
"In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists."
"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."
"My life is my message."
"Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone."
"To lose patience is to lose the battle."
"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching."
"Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position."
"You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results."
"Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it."
"Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear."
"If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning."
"Our struggle is not a matter of a few days or even a few years, but of generations."
"Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth."
"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 have the same hope and faith."
"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into."
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