A Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves

Mahatma Gandhi

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Assessment Capacity Connected Dispassionate Growing Individual Learn Level Ourselves Purification Reliance Rule Self Self-Reliance

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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian - Leader
October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948

Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.

Mahatma Gandhi

Self-confidence without self-reliance is as useless as a cooking recipe without food. Self-confidence sees the possibilities of the individual; self-reliance realizes them. Self-confidence sees the angel in the unhewn block of marble; self-reliance carves it out for oneself.

William George Jordan

It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Steven Pressfield

A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.

Mahatma Gandhi

Individualism is the self-affirmation of the individual self as individual self without regard to its participation in its world. As such it is the opposite of collectivism, the self affirmation of the self as part of a larger whole without regard to its character as an individual self.

Paul Tillich

Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

Mahatma Gandhi

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.

Al Spalding

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Mahatma Gandhi

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You bet I write disaster fiction. We have compiled a disastrous record on this planet, a record of stupidity and absurdity and self-abuse and self-aggrandizement and self-deception and pompousness and self-righteousness and cruelty and indifference beyond what any other species has demonstrated the capacity for, which is the capacity for all the above.

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Henry Rollins

In several short years, Obama has fundamentally shifted the balance away from the individual and toward government, and has altered the national psyche from self-reliance to ever-growing reliance on government.

Monica Crowley

Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance.

Noel Carroll

We call ourselves a "capacity building" organization; self-motivated and self-initiated capacity building. For example, in 30 years, I don't think I have signed a check for the company.