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Swami Vivekananda Quotes
Whatever you think that you will be.If you think yourself weak, weak you will be; if you think yourself strong, you will be. ― 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
This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondage. ― Swami Vivekananda
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material. ― 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
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is a sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak. ― Swami Vivekananda
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves. ― Swami Vivekananda
The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties. ― Swami Vivekananda
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. ― Swami Vivekananda
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God. ― Swami Vivekananda
Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet. ― Swami Vivekananda
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
Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable. ― Swami Vivekananda
The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine. ― Swami Vivekananda
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain- and the whole world is at your feet. ― Swami Vivekananda
The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words. ― Swami Vivekananda
All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls. ― Swami Vivekananda
You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute. ― Swami Vivekananda
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being? ― Swami Vivekananda
Be a here. Always say, I have no fear. Tell this to everyone – Have no fear. ― Swami Vivekananda
Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die. ― Swami Vivekananda
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
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself. ― Swami Vivekananda
Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be; if you think yourself strong, strong you will be. ― Swami Vivekananda
Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet. ― Swami Vivekananda
Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood. ― Swami Vivekananda
We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life. ― Swami Vivekananda
Inspirational Swami Vivekananda Quotes
“Talk to yourself once in a day, otherwise, you may miss meeting an excellent person in this world.” Swami Vivekananda
“If I love myself despite my infinite faults, how can I hate anyone at the glimpse of a few faults.” Swami Vivekananda
“All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who we have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.” Swami Vivekananda
“Take risks in your life. If you win, you can lead, if you lose, you can guide.” Swami Vivekananda
“Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.” Swami Vivekananda
“The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.” Swami Vivekananda
“Who is helping you don’t forget them. Who is loving you, don’t hate them. Who is believing you, don’t cheat them.” Swami Vivekananda
“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care of what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.” Swami Vivekananda
“Learn everything that is good from others but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.” Swami Vivekananda
“The reason for every misunderstanding is that we see the people as we are but not as they are.” Swami Vivekananda
“Let men have light, let them be pure and spiritually strong and educated, then alone will misery cease in the world, not before.” Swami Vivekananda
“Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can, build your hope on none.” Swami Vivekananda
“Never think yourself weak.” Swami Vivekananda
“You have to grow from the inside out.” Swami Vivekananda
“All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.” Swami Vivekananda
“A man is not poor without a rupee but a man is really poor without a dream and ambition.” Swami Vivekananda
“Anything that makes you weak, physically, intellectually, and spiritually, reject as a poison.” Swami Vivekananda
“Your body is a weapon and consider it very strong. Consider your mind to be very strong as only with strong mind and body you will be able to cross the ocean of life. Have strong faith in yourself, your body and mind.” Swami Vivekananda
“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.” Swami Vivekananda
“Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.” Swami Vivekananda
“Everything that is excellent will come when this sleeping soul is aroused to self-conscious activity.” 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
“Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all, love.” Swami Vivekananda
“Always try to represent yourself happy because initially, it becomes your look. Gradually it becomes your habit and finally, it becomes your personality.” Swami Vivekananda
“Doing good to others is the one great universal religion.” Swami Vivekananda
“What I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.” Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda Quotes For Students
“Strength is life; weakness is death.”
“Experience is the only teacher we have. we may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth.”
“If you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.”
“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.”
“Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at other; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.”
“Meditation can turn fools in to sages but unfortunately fools never meditate.”
“Learn everything that is good from others, but bring it in, and in your own way adsorb it; do not become others.”
“In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.”
“That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.”
“You should work like a master and not as a slave; work incessantly, but do not do a slave’s work.”
“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.”
“If i love myself despite my infinite faults, how can i hate anyone at the glimpse of a few faults”..!
“You cannot believe in god until you believe in yourself.”
“All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak; do ot believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you.”
“You are the creator of your own destiny.”
“That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.”
“Talk to yourself once in a day.. otherwise you may miss meeting an excellent person in this world.”
“Throw away all weakness. tell your body that it is strong. Tell your mind that it is strong and have unbound faith and hope in yourself.”
“All power is within you; you can do anything and everything.”
“When you are doing any work.. do it as worship, as he highest worship, and devote your whole life to it for the time being.”
“The mistake is that we want to tie the whole world down to our own plane of thought and to make out mind the measure of the whole universe.”
“We are what our thought have made us; So take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; They travel far.”
“Have faith in yourself – all power is in you. Even the poison of a snake is powerless, if you can firmly deny it.”
“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.”
“Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mothers of great deeds.”
“If superstitions enters, the brain is gone”
Swami Vivekananda Quotes On Love
Love all creatures. Do not be jealous of anyone. Look not to the faults of others.
Love alone is the fittest thing to survive and not hatred.
Love and ask nothing; love and look for nothing further.
Love and forget all the “isms”.
Love banishes all fear.
Love binds, love makes for that oneness.
(Love) can never be the means. The man who says, “I love you for such and such a thing”, does not love. Love can never be the means; it must be the perfect end.
Love cannot be without a subject and an object.
Love conquers in the long run.
Love immense and infinite, broad as the sky and deep as the ocean — this is the one great gain in life. Blessed is he who gets it.
Love is always a manifestation of bliss. The least shadow of pain falling upon it is always a sign of physicality and selfishness.
Love is always mutual, reflective. You may hate me, and if I want to love you, you repulse me. But if I persist, in a month or a year you are bound to love me. It is a well-known psychological phenomenon.
Love is always the giver, and never the taker.
Love is beyond time and space, it is absolute.
Love is Existence, God Himself; and all this is the manifestation of that One Love, more or less expressed.
Love is great and noble, but, it may die away in meaningless sentimentalism.
Love is higher than work, than Yoga, than knowledge.
Love is struggle of a human Soul to find its complement its stable equilibrium its infinite rest.
Love is the culmination.
Love is the easiest and smoothest way towards the self-surrender or subjection of the will and hatred, the opposite.
Love is the easiest of all, it waits for no logic, it is natural.
Love is the ideal and requires no object. Love is God.
Love is the only form in which love is loved.
Love is the real immortality, getting which a man becomes perfectly satisfied.
Love itself is God.
Love itself is the eternal, endless sacrifice.
Love itself is the highest recompense of love.
Love knows no bargaining.
Love knows no fear. You may cut me to pieces, and I [will] still love you.
Love knows no reward. Love is always for love’s sake.
Love, Love—that’s the one thing, the sole treasure.
Love loves for the sake of love itself.
Swami Vivekananda Quotes On Education
All power is within you; You can do anything and everything.
Arise, Awake and Stop not till the goal is reached.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
You are the creator of your own destiny.
There is only one purpose in the whole of life education.
We may read books, hear lectures, and talk miles, but experience is the one teacher, the one eye-opener. It is best as it is. We learn, through smiles and tears we learn.
The present system of education is all wrong. The mind is crammed with facts before it knows how to think.
Educate our people, so that they may be able to solve their own problems. Until that is done, all these ideal reforms will remain ideals only
It is man-making education all round that we want.
Books are infinite in number and time is short; therefore the secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.
The very essence of education is concentration of mind.
Complete continence gives great intellectual and spiritual power.
No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion which rouses the internal teacher to work to understand things.
What is education? Is it book learning? No. Is it diverse knowledge? Not even that. The training by which the current and expression of will are brought under control and become fruitful is called education.