

“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.”
Harijan · 1947
Traced to Harijan (1947).
More from Mahatma Gandhi
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need but not for every man's greed.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi: The Last Phase (recorded by Pyarelal Nayyar)
likely“You may never know what results come of your actions. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Speech at a prayer meeting, New Delhi · 1947
verified“There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Young India · 1921
verified“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Young India · 1931
verified“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
Mahatma Gandhi
The Doctrine of the Sword, Young India · 1920
verified“Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Young India · 1925
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“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”
Helen Keller
The Simplest Way to be Happy · 1933
verified“No doubt the reason is that character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
Helen Keller
Helen Keller's Journal · 1938
verified“Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”
Helen Keller
We Bereaved · 1929
verified“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
You Learn by Living · 1960
verified“The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity — even under the most difficult circumstances — to add a deeper meaning to his life.”
Viktor Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning · 1959
verified“There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.”
Viktor Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning · 1959
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