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Mahatma Gandhi

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Biography - Mahatma Gandhi:

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Indian lawyer and political ethicist.
Born: 1869 - Died: 1948
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: India
India

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi


Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

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Translation

Translation

(German, French, Italian, Spanish)



German
Sei Du selbst die Veränderung, die Du Dir wünschst für diese Welt.
Mahatma Gandhi

French
Sois le changement que tu veux voir dans le monde.
Mahatma Gandhi

Italian
Sii il cambiamento che vuoi vedere nel mondo.

Spanish
Sé el cambio que deseas ver en el mundo.



See also 

See also...



Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.
George Bernard Shaw

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
Mahatma Gandhi

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela



Quotes for: change


Quotes

Quotes about change:


The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts - The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety / 





Change alone is the constant.
Arthur Schopenhauer - Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life / 





If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Carl Gustav Jung / 





Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht / 





To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson - Creative Evolution / 





To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson / 






All about change...




Quotes for: world


Quotes

Quotes about the world:


The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus / 





To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
William Blake - Auguries of Innocence / 





The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
Albert Einstein / 





Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary / 





How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice / 





We admire the world through what we love.
Alphonse de Lamartine - Jocelyn / 






All about the world...




Quotes for: oneself


Quotes

Quotes about oneself:


It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Katherine Mansfield / 





The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.
André Gide / 





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Seneca - De Vita Beata / 





The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 





Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert Green Ingersoll / 





I accept the great adventure of being me.
Simone de Beauvoir / 






All about oneself...




Quotes

Mahatma Gandhi also said...


There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi / 





Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi / 





Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi / 





My life is my message.
Mahatma Gandhi / 





The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall always see Truth in fragment and from different points of vision.
Mahatma Gandhi / 





Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Mahatma Gandhi / 







More quotes...





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