Swami Vivekananda was an Indian Hindu monk, a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna. Inspirational Swami Vivekananda quotes will guide you in life with wisdom and help you to feel enthusiastic to succeed in his life.
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Most Famous Swami Vivekananda Quotes
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Always try to represent yourself as happy. Initially, it becomes your look, gradually it becomes your habit and finally it becomes your personality.
Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be; if you think yourselves impure, impure you will be; if you think yourselves pure, pure you will be.
Anything that makes you weak physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison
To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. I will drink the ocean’, says the persevering soul, at my will mountains will crumble up. Have that sort of energy, that sort of will, work hard, and you will reach the goal.
Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.
If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.
Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.
Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow never a man. So never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality this is the trinity of bondage
I want each one of my children to be a hundred times greater than I could ever be. Every one of you must be a giant must, that is my word. Obedience, readiness, and love for the cause if you have these three, nothing can hold you back.
Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you, if you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle
I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense. I do not believe in any politics. God and truth are the only politics in the world, everything else is trash.
I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world tolerance & universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration but we accept all religions as true.
Do not be afraid of a small beginning. Great things come afterwards. Be courageous. Do not try to lead your brethren, but serve them. The brutal mania for leading has sunk many great ships in the waters of life. Take care especially of that, i.e. be unselfish even unto death, and work
The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire
Be strong, my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Gita. These are bold words; but I have to say them, for I love you. I know where the shoe pinches.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true
Arise, awake, sleep no more; within each of you there is the power to remove all wants and all miseries. Believe this, and that power will be manifested.
Be the servant while leading. Be unselfish. Have infinite patience, and success is yours.
Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure if you look back upon your lives you will find that you were always vainly trying to get help from others which never came.
We are what our thoughts have made us. So take care about what you think. Words are secondary, thoughts live and travel far
Who is helping you, don’t forget them.
Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you and out of that will come great work.
Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
Karma determines what we deserve and what we can assimilate. We are responsible for what we are; and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
If I love myself despite my infinite faults, how can I hate anyone at the glimpse of a few faults?
Work for work’s sake. There are some who are really the salt of the earth in every country and who work for work’s sake, who do not care for name, or fame, or even to go to heaven. They work just because good will come of it.
Don’t look back forward infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
If you wish to help a man, never think what that man’s attitude should be towards you. If you want to do a great or a good work, do not trouble to think what the result will be.
Each work has to pass through these stages ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
If a man retires from the world to worship God, he must not think that those who live in the world and work for the good of the world are not worshipping God.
Have faith in yourself, all power is in you. Even the poison of a snake is powerless, if you can firmly deny it.
Everything we do, physical or mental, is Karma, and it leaves its marks on us.
Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mothers of great deeds.
All the actions that we see in the world, all the movements in human society, all the works that we have around us, are simply the display of thought, the manifestation of the will of man. Machines or instruments, cities, ships, or men of war, all these are
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced.
A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library, but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to, and this deserving is produced by Karma.
Talk to yourself at least once in a day otherwise you may miss meeting an excellent person in this world
Every man should take up his own ideal and endeavour to accomplish it. That is a surer way of progress than taking up other men’s ideals, which he can never hope to accomplish.
The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties.
Take up one idea, make that one idea your life, think of it, dream of it, let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.
Arise, awake, and stop not until the goal is achieved.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you.
Talk to yourself once in a day, otherwise, you may miss meeting an excellent person in this world.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Learn everything that is good from others but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.
Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
A man is not poor without a rupee but a man is really poor without a dream and ambition.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, ‘Thy will be done.’ We only dream of this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
If superstitions enter, the brain is gone.
Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material
The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.
Whatever you believe, that you will be, If you believe yourselves to be ages, ages you will be tomorrow. There is nothing to obstruct you.
When you are doing any work do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote your whole life to it for the time being.
In a day, when you don’t come across any problems you can be sure that you are traveling in the wrong path.
Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet
Come out of your narrow holes and have a look abroad.
Don’t look back forward infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Each work has to pass through these stages ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
If you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.
Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mothers of great deeds.
In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.
The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties.
The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
We want that education by which character is formed, the strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one’s own feet.
Take risks in your life, If you win, you can lead! If you lose, you can guide!
I look upon religion as the innermost core of education.
The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure house of knowledge.
If the mountain does not come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain. If the poor cannot come to education, education must reach them at the plough, in the factory, everywhere.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
If education is identical with information, the libraries are the greatest sages in the world, and encyclopedias are the Rishis.
They alone live, who live for others.
Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind is the ideal education.
Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves.
Education is the manifestation of perfection already in man.
