110+ Swami Vivekananda Quotes On Success, Strength And Weakness

Swami Vivekananda was an Indian Hindu monk and chief disciple of the 19th-century saint Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world and is credited with raising interfaith awareness, bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion during the late 19th century. He was a major force in the revival of Hinduism in India, and contributed to the notion of nationalism in colonial India. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Swami Vivekananda on success, strength, weakness.

Top 10 Swami Vivekananda Quotes

1. When I asked God for strength, He gave me difficult situations to face.
2. As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.
3. Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, U Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide!
4. 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.
5. Never lose faith in yourself; you can do anything in the universe.
6. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
7. Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.
8. Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
9. Purity, patience and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all love.
10. Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals, But because of the inactivities of the good people.

Swami Vivekananda Image Quotes

Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, U Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide! — Swami Vivekananda

Never lose faith in yourself; you can do anything in the universe. — Swami Vivekananda

Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death. — Swami Vivekananda

Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached. — Swami Vivekananda

Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy. — Swami Vivekananda

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. — Swami Vivekananda

Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is! — Swami Vivekananda

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. — Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda Short Quotes

• You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
• The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.
• Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.
• In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.
• Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is!
• Doing good to others is the #‎ one great Universal Religion
• Ahimsa (non-killing), truthfulness, purity, mercy, and godliness are always to be kept.
• The sky never changes: it is the cloud that is changing.
• Have faith in yourself, all power is in you, be conscious and bring it out
• The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Success

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. 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. — Swami Vivekananda

Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause. — Swami Vivekananda

Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness. Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world. — Swami Vivekananda

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. — Swami Vivekananda

Have fire and spread all over. Work, work. Be the servant while leading, be unselfish, and never listen to one friend in private accusing another. Have infinite patience, and success is yours. — Swami Vivekananda

Love conquers in the long run. It won't do to become impatient - wait, wait - patience is bound to give success. . . . — Swami Vivekananda

There is no other teacher but your own soul. — Swami Vivekananda

If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that. — Swami Vivekananda

Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth-Brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from God. — Swami Vivekananda

Know that every time you feel weak, you not only hurt yourself but also the cause. Infinite faith and strength are the only conditions of success. — Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Strength

Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing ones. — Swami Vivekananda

May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea. — Swami Vivekananda

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength. — Swami Vivekananda

Freedom can never be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself. — Swami Vivekananda

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. — Swami Vivekananda

Even the least work done for others awakens the power within; even thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the heart the strength of a lion. — Swami Vivekananda

Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin. — Swami Vivekananda

Know that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the motive power in all evil doing; it is weakness that makes men injure others; it is weakness that makes them manifest what they are not in reality. Let them know what they really are. — Swami Vivekananda

The calm man is not the man who is dull. You must not mistake Sattva for dullness or laziness. The calm man is the one who has control over the mind waves. Activity is the manifestation of inferior strength, calmness, of the superior. — Swami Vivekananda

You may meditate on whatever you like, but I shall meditate on the heart of a lion. That gives strength — Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Weakness

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. You can do anything and everything without even the guidance of any one. — Swami Vivekananda

Bear in mind, my children, that only cowards and those who are weak commit sin and tell lies. The brave are always moral. Try to be moral, try to be brave, try to be sympathising. — Swami Vivekananda

Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind; therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest. — Swami Vivekananda

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that. — Swami Vivekananda

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak. — Swami Vivekananda

He who always thinks himself as weak will never become strong, but he who knows himself to be a lion, rushes out from the worlds meshes, as a lion from its cage. — Swami Vivekananda

Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible. — Swami Vivekananda

Never allow weakness to overtake your mind. Remember Mahavira, remember the Divine Mother! And you will see that all weakness, all cowardice will vanish at once. — Swami Vivekananda

Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better. — Swami Vivekananda

There is only one sin and it is: weakness. When I was a boy, I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good man I had any respect for was Satan. The only saint is that person who never weakens, faces everything, and determines die game. — Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Knowledge

The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge. — Swami Vivekananda

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind. — Swami Vivekananda

Understanding human nature is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing it can we know God. It is also a fact that the knowledge of God is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing God can we understand human nature. — Swami Vivekananda

The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind. — Swami Vivekananda

No negative, all positive, affirmative. I am, God is, everything is in me. I will manifest health, purity, knowledge, whatever I want. — Swami Vivekananda

We read many books, but that does not bring us knowledge. We may read all the Bibles in the world, but that will not give us religion. Theoretical religion is easy enough to get, any one may get that. What we want is practical religion. — Swami Vivekananda

If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature. — Swami Vivekananda

Think day and night, I am of the essence of that Supreme Existence, Knowledge, Bliss-what fear and anxiety have I? This body, mind, and intellect are all transient, and That which is beyond these is myself. — Swami Vivekananda

Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book! — Swami Vivekananda

You are strong, omnipotent, and omniscient. No matter that you have not expressed it yet, it is in you. All knowledge is in you, all power, all purity, and all freedom-why cannot you express this knowledge? Because you do not believe in it... Believe in it, and it must and will come out. — Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Karma

The law of Karma is the law of causation. — Swami Vivekananda

Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. . . . Our thoughts, our words, and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves. — Swami Vivekananda

Jnana, bhakti, yoga and karma - these are the four paths which lead to spiritual freedom. One must follow the path for which one is best suited. But in this age, special stress should be laid on karma yoga. — Swami Vivekananda

The three essentials of Hinduism are belief in God, in the Vedas as revelation, in the doctrine of Karma and transmigration. — Swami Vivekananda

The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita. — Swami Vivekananda

Friends or foes, they are all instruments in Her hands to help us work out our own karma, through pleasure or pain. As such, 'Mother' bless all. — Swami Vivekananda

Each man has a mission in life, which is the result of all his infinite past Karma. — Swami Vivekananda

We are the makers of our own lives. There is no such thing as fate. Our lives are the result of our previous actions, our karma, and it naturally flows that, having been ourselves the makers of our karma, we must also be able to unmake it. — Swami Vivekananda

Only man makes Karma. — Swami Vivekananda

We are suffering from our own Karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed?. . . — Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Yoga

In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture - renunciation. This is religion - renunciation. — Swami Vivekananda

The Tapas and the other hard Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this Yuga is giving, helping others. — Swami Vivekananda

Now is wanted intense Karma-Yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused. — Swami Vivekananda

Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss. — Swami Vivekananda

The chief helps in this liberation are Abhyasa and Vairagya. Vairagya is non - attachment to life, because it is the will to enjoy that brings all this bondage in its train; and Abhyasa is constant practice of any one of the Yogas. — Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Concentration

The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine. — Swami Vivekananda

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 — Swami Vivekananda

The wind of divine grace is always blowing. You just need to spread your sail. Whenever you do anything, do it with your whole heart concentrated on it. Think day and night, I am of the essence of that Supreme Being-Consciousness-Bliss. What fear and anxiety have I? — Swami Vivekananda

The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration. — Swami Vivekananda

It is clear to us that, for good or for evil, our vitality is concentrated in our religion. You cannot change it. You cannot destroy it and put in its place another. — Swami Vivekananda

The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so will the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets. — Swami Vivekananda

High achievements in art, music, etc., are the results of concentration. — Swami Vivekananda

He who knows even how to prepare a smoke properly, knows also how to meditate. And he who cannot cook well cannot be a perfect sannyasin. Unless cooking is performed with a pure mind and concentration, the food is not palatable. — Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Education

So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them. — Swami Vivekananda

Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man. — Swami Vivekananda

If the poor boy cannot come to education, education must go to him — Swami Vivekananda

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 of education]. — Swami Vivekananda

The Pariahs, our fellow beings, ought to be educated by the higher castes. — Swami Vivekananda

A Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten. — Swami Vivekananda

How can there be any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge? — Swami Vivekananda

Through the imparting of moral principles, good behaviour, and education we must make the Chandala come up to the level of the Brahmana. — Swami Vivekananda

Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status. This is the result of an old and excellent religious civilization. This evolution to a higher spiritual state is possible only through discipline and education. — Swami Vivekananda

Who will bring light to the poor? Who will travel from door to door bringing education to them? Let these people be your God-think of them, work for them, pray for them incessantly. The Lord will show you the way. — Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Humanity

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free. — Swami Vivekananda

The human soul has sojourned in lower and higher forms, migrating from one to another according to the samskaras or impressions, but it is only in the highest form as a human being that it attains to freedom. — Swami Vivekananda

It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment. — Swami Vivekananda

Everything that we perceive around us is struggling towards freedom, from the atom to the man, from the insentient, lifeless particle of matter to the highest existence on earth, the human soul. The whole universe is in fact the result of this struggle for freedom. — Swami Vivekananda

Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon as they have learnt and are ready to abide by the eternal lesson - that we are bound to bear and forbear and that life to every one must be a compromise. — Swami Vivekananda

Be not afraid , for all great power throughout the history of humanity has been with the people. From out of their ranks have come all the greatest geniuses of the world, and history can only repeat itself. Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work. — Swami Vivekananda

The perfect man sees nothing but God. — Swami Vivekananda

The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish. — Swami Vivekananda

Man's experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool. — Swami Vivekananda

According to this philosophy, each man consists of three parts - the body, the internal organ or the mind, and behind that, what is called the Atman, the Self. — Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Spiritual

Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual fife, fight! Fight as long as there is any life in you! Even though you know that you are going to be killed, fight till you are killed! Don't die of fright! Die fighting! Don't go down till you are knocked down. — Swami Vivekananda

This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings...scenes on a canvas...of which I am the witness. — Swami Vivekananda

The Gita is like a bouquet composed of the beautiful flowers of spiritual truths collected from the Upanishads. — Swami Vivekananda

God is very merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for spiritual realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that His grace will never come. — Swami Vivekananda

A man may be the greatest philosopher in the world but a child in RELIGION. When a man has developed a high state of spirituality he can understand that the kingdom of heaven is within him. — Swami Vivekananda

From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry with its multifarious mythology, the agnosticism of the Buddhists and the atheism of the Jains, each and all have a place in the Hinduism religion. — Swami Vivekananda

Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the senses and control the mind. Bear every misery without even knowing that you are miserable. Think of nothing but spiritual freedom. — Swami Vivekananda

Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality. — Swami Vivekananda

Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet. — Swami Vivekananda

Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation lessens, the more will the senses creep into the field of religion, and spirituality will decrease in the same ratio. — Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Inspiring

It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. — Swami Vivekananda

All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live. — Swami Vivekananda

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles. — Swami Vivekananda

Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work. — Swami Vivekananda

Be a hero. Always say, 'I have no fear.' Tell this to everyone - 'Have no fear.' — Swami Vivekananda

Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe. — Swami Vivekananda

A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century. — Swami Vivekananda

This, I have seen in life - those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step. Those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace; and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose. — Swami Vivekananda

Don't look back—forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience—then alone can great deeds be accomplished. — Swami Vivekananda

This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself. — Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Educator

What we want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel. We have wept long enough. No more weeping, but stand on your feet and be men. It is man-making theories that we want. It is man-making education all round that we want. — Swami Vivekananda

We want the education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet. — Swami Vivekananda

The very reason for nature's existence is the education of the soul; it has no other meaning. — Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Idea

There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and countries, and that has been summed up in a Sanskrit aphorism thus: "Do not injure any being; not injuring any being is virtue, injuring any being is sin." — Swami Vivekananda

Those that only take a nibble here and a nibble there will never attain anything ... Those who really want to be yogis must give up, once and for all, this nibbling at things. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. — Swami Vivekananda

Give up the awful disease that is creeping into our national blood, that idea of ridiculing everything, that loss of seriousness. Give that up. Be strong and have this Shraddha, and everything else is bound to follow. — Swami Vivekananda

The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence — Swami Vivekananda

To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea. — Swami Vivekananda

Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. — Swami Vivekananda

That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas cannot penetrate into the heart of society. — Swami Vivekananda

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. — Swami Vivekananda

Always remember that renunciation is the root idea. Unless one is initiated into this idea, not even Brahma and the World - gods have the power to attain Mukti — Swami Vivekananda

It is the witness alone that can work without any desire, without any idea of going to heaven, without any idea of blame, without any idea of praise. The witness alone enjoys, and none else. — Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Live

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. — Swami Vivekananda

Never producing pain by thought, word, and deed, in any living being, is what is called Ahimsâ, non-injury. — Swami Vivekananda

Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with my tears, but with my heart's blood! — Swami Vivekananda

What is salvation? To live with God. Where? Anywhere. Here this moment. One moment in infinite time is quite as good as any other moment. — Swami Vivekananda

The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. They never say “me” and “mine”; they are only blessed in being instruments — Swami Vivekananda

They alone live, who live for others. — Swami Vivekananda

Unselfishness is God. One may live on a throne, in a golden palace, and be perfectly unselfish; and then he is in God. Another may live in a hut and wear rags, and have nothing in the world; yet, if he is selfish, he is intensely merged in the world. — Swami Vivekananda

Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else. — Swami Vivekananda

Fool indeed is he, who, living on the banks of the Ganga, digs a little well for water. Fool indeed is the man who, coming to a mine of diamonds, begins to search for glass beads. — Swami Vivekananda

They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive. — Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Ideal

I want to start two institutions, one in Madras and one in Calcutta, to carry out my plan; and that plan briefly is to bring the Vedantic ideals into the everyday practical life of the saint or the sinner, of the sage or the ignoramus, of the Brahmin or the Pariah. — Swami Vivekananda

If there be no eternal life, still the enjoyment of spiritual thoughts as ideals is keener and makes a man happier, whilst the foolery of materialism leads to competition and undue ambition and ultimate death, individual and national. — Swami Vivekananda

Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature unconsciously. — Swami Vivekananda

Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything. — Swami Vivekananda

I direct my attention to the individual, to make him strong, to teach him that he himself is divine, and I call upon men to make themselves conscious of this divinity within. That is really the ideal --conscious or unconscious --of every religion. — Swami Vivekananda

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art. — Swami Vivekananda

None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress. — Swami Vivekananda

The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother. — Swami Vivekananda

We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us". — Swami Vivekananda

My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life. — Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Large

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. — Swami Vivekananda

External nature is only internal nature writ large. — Swami Vivekananda

My hope of the future lies in the youths of character, intelligent, renouncing all for the service of others, and obedient - good to themselves and the country at large — Swami Vivekananda

The Buddhist tenet, "Non-killing is supreme virtue", is very good, but in trying to enforce it upon all by legislation without paying any heed to the capacities of the people at large, Buddhism has brought ruin upon India. — Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Soul

The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being. — Swami Vivekananda

These practices - non-killing, truthfulness, non-stealing, chastity, and non-receiving - are to be practised by every man, woman, and child; by every soul, irrespective of nation, country, or position. — Swami Vivekananda

There is no help for you outside of yourself; you are the creator of the universe. Like the silkworm you have built a cocoon around yourself.... Burst your own cocoon and come out as the beautiful butterfly, as the free soul. Then alone you will see Truth. — Swami Vivekananda

This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is stronger. — Swami Vivekananda

Feel, my children, feel; feel for the poor, the ignorant, the downtrodden; feel till the heart stops and the brain reels and you think you will go mad; then pour the soul out at the feet of the Lord, and then will come power, help and indomitable energy. — Swami Vivekananda

Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else. — Swami Vivekananda

Every one is as much bound in thought, word, deed, and mind, as a piece of stone or this table. That I talk to you now is as rigorous in causation as that you listen to me. There is no freedom until you go beyond Maya. That is the real freedom of the soul. — Swami Vivekananda

Oh, if only you knew yourselves! You are souls; you are Gods. If ever I feel like blaspheming, it is when I call you man. — Swami Vivekananda

My son, there is no rest for me. That which Sri Ramakrishna called "Kali" took possession of my body and soul three or four days before his passing away. That makes me work and work and never lets me keep still or look to my personal comfort. — Swami Vivekananda

As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this universe. — Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda Famous Quotes And Sayings

Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, U Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide! — Swami Vivekananda

Never lose faith in yourself; you can do anything in the universe. — Swami Vivekananda

Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death. — Swami Vivekananda

Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached. — Swami Vivekananda

Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy. — Swami Vivekananda

Let people say whatever they like, stick to your own convictions, and rest assured, the world will be at your feet. They say, "Have faith in this fellow or that fellow", but I say, "Have faith in yourself first", that's the way. Have faith in yourself-all power is in you-be conscious and bring it out. Say, "I can do everything." — Swami Vivekananda

We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise. — Swami Vivekananda

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. — Swami Vivekananda

Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization. — Swami Vivekananda

Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is! — Swami Vivekananda

If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions. — Swami Vivekananda

One way for attaining Bhakti is by repeating the name of God a number of times. Mantras have effect: the mere repetition of words.... To obtain Bhakti, seek the company of holy men who have Bhakti, and read books like the Gita and the Imitation of Christ; always think of the attributes of God. — Swami Vivekananda

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. — Swami Vivekananda

Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper. — Swami Vivekananda

Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person. — Swami Vivekananda

For a warrior, nothing is higher than a war against evil. The warrior confronted with such a war should be pleased, Arjuna, for it comes as an open gate to heaven. But if you do not participate in this battle against evil, you will incur sin, violating your dharma and your honor. — Swami Vivekananda

Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord - march on, the Lord is our General. Do not look back to see who falls - forward - onward! Thus and thus we shall go on, brethren. One falls, and another takes up the work — Swami Vivekananda

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. — Swami Vivekananda

Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world. — Swami Vivekananda

Is there any sex-distinction in the Atman (Self)? Out with the differentiation between man and woman—all is Atman! Give up the identification with the body, and stand up! — Swami Vivekananda

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. — Swami Vivekananda

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true. — Swami Vivekananda

Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the fear in their own minds. — Swami Vivekananda

Work unto death! I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life comes and goes; wealth, fame, enjoyments are only of a few days. It is better, far better to die on the field of duty, preaching the truth, than to die like a worldly worm. Advance! — Swami Vivekananda

All these disciplines are for the purification of the heart. And as soon as it is pure, all truths flash upon it in a minute; all truth in the universe will manifest in your heart, if you are sufficiently pure. — Swami Vivekananda

Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress. — Swami Vivekananda

Practice is absolutely necessary. You may sit down and listen to me by the hour every day, but if you do not practice, you will not get one step further. It all depends on practice. — Swami Vivekananda

It is the duty of all to support and side with Dharma. All must fight and support Dharma regardless of their personality, background, status. — Swami Vivekananda

In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed on you. Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us. — Swami Vivekananda

Every act of charity, every thought of sympathy, every action of help, every good deed, is taking so much of self-importance away from our little selves and making us think of ourselves as the lowest and the least, and, therefore, it is all good. Here we find that Jnâna, Bhakti, and Karma - all come to one point. — Swami Vivekananda

You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains. — Swami Vivekananda

If you are a strong man, very good! But do not curse others who are not strong enough for you. ...Everyone says, "Woe unto you people!!" Who says, "Woe unto me that I cannot help you?" The people are doing all right to the best of their ability and means and knowledge. Woe unto me that I cannot lift them to where I am! — Swami Vivekananda

It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm. — Swami Vivekananda

I loved my motherland dearly before I went to America and England. After my return, every particle of dust of this land seems sacred to me. — Swami Vivekananda

Wherever there is evil and wherever there is ignorance and want of knowledge, I have found out by experience that all evil comes, as our scriptures say, relying upon differences, and that all good comes from faith in equality, in the underlying sameness and oneness of things. This is the great Vedantic ideal. — Swami Vivekananda

Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die. — Swami Vivekananda

God is always God, but the views which people and nations may take of him vary. No higher view is known than that of love. — Swami Vivekananda

He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed. — Swami Vivekananda

To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity. — Swami Vivekananda

The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God, the more will long faces come. The more we know God, the more misery vanishes. — Swami Vivekananda

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material. — Swami Vivekananda

To me an Indian is one who has got a Vedantic brain which probes deep and soars high; an Islamic body that is vibrant and valiant; a Buddhistic heart overflowing with compassion and kindness and Christian limbs of service and sacrifice. — Swami Vivekananda

Let a man go down as low as possible; there must come a time when out of sheer desperation he will take an upward curve and will learn to have faith in himself. — Swami Vivekananda

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. — Swami Vivekananda

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go. — Swami Vivekananda

The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present. — Swami Vivekananda

Life Lessons by Swami Vivekananda

1. Swami Vivekananda taught the importance of self-improvement, discipline, and dedication to one's spiritual path. He believed that by striving to be the best version of oneself, one can ultimately reach a higher level of spiritual enlightenment.
2. He also emphasized the importance of service to others, as he believed that by helping others, one can find true joy and satisfaction in life.
3. Finally, Swami Vivekananda encouraged his followers to be open-minded and tolerant of different beliefs and cultures, as he believed that this was the key to achieving peace and harmony in the world.