Moral Growth Quotes

• The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Comfort, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Being Strong, Peace

  "Gandhi on Non-Violence".

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• Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Names, Religion, May

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Truth, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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• We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Heart, Acceptance

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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• Where there is love there is life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.119, Courier Corporation

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• Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Effort, Morality

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Perseverance, Work, Bad Day

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• A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

  Frederick Douglass

  Patriotic, Reflection, Appreciate

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.565, Chicago Review Press

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• One of the ways in which parenting is a learning experience and an opportunity for moral growth is that we learn as parents that we don't choose the kind of child that we have.

  Michael Sandel

  Children, Opportunity, Parent

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.

  Alfie Kohn

  Punishment, Erode, Growth

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• Maybe the growth of "God" signifies the existence of God. That is: if history naturally pushes people toward moral improvement, toward moral growth, and their God, as they conceive their God, grows accordingly, becoming morally richer, then maybe this growth is evidence of some higher purpose, and maybe - conceivably - the source of that purpose is worthy of the name divinity.

  Robert Wright

  Names, People, Purpose

  Robert Wright (2010). “The Evolution Of God: The origins of our beliefs”, p.181, Hachette UK

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