You may never know what results come of your actions. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
In plain words
You may never see what your actions did, but doing nothing does nothing.
Where these words come from
- 88% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Speech at a prayer meeting, New Delhi (1947); Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. 90, p. 55.
- 1947
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