QUOTES

Quotes by Swamy Vivekananda

"Out of purity and silence comes the word of power."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"There is salvation only for the brave"
- Swamy Vivekananda
"The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. They never say "me" or "mine";..."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"When the mind tries to think of anything else, give it hard blow, so that it may turn around and think of god."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", then only will we want real knowledge."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas th..."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"If you want to do anything evil, do it before the eyes of your superiors."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, ner..."
- Swamy 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 on..."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"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..."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside..."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"GOD is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far..."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"In one word, this ideal is that you are divine."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak,..."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them."
- Swamy 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."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"GOD of truth, be Thou alone my guide…"
- Swamy Vivekananda
"If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully,..."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!"
- Swamy Vivekananda
"YOU know, I may have to be born again, you see, I have fallen in love with mankind."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"BY the study of different RELIGIONS we find that in essence they are one."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"People laugh because I am different and I laugh because they are all the same. That’s called attitude."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"Youth is not an age of body fitness it’s the power of being active and getting a easy path to success by hard work."
- Swamy 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 th..."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"It is a privilege to serve mankind, for this is the worship of God; God is here, in all these human souls. He is the soul of ..."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your ..."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"Purity, patience and perseverance are the three essentials to success, and above all, love."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"Be positive. Do not critize others. Give your message, teach what you have to teach, and there stop. The Lord knows the rest."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"Unselfishness is God. Selfishness is devil incarnate in every man. Every bit of self, bit by bit is devil. Take off self by o..."
- Swamy Vivekananda
""Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "Comfortable"."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"Get spiritual freedom even at the cost of life."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"Every duty is holy, and devotion to duty is the highest form of the worship of God."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"You must remember that humanity travels not from error to truth, but from truth to truth; it may be from lower truth to highe..."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts makes..."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"Jealousy is the central vice of every enslaved race. And it is jealousy and want of combination which cause and perpetuate sl..."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"The calmer we are and the less disturbed our nerves, the more shall we love and the better will our work."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"To be good and to do good, that is the whole of religion."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"Never forget that a man is made great and perfect as much by his faults as by his virtues."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"The soul is not composed of any materials. It is unity indivisible. Therefore it must be indestructable."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"No need for looking behind, forward! We want infinite energy, infinite zeal, infinite courage and infinite patience, then onl..."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"Put your heart, mind and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the reality. We must go to the reality. Renunciat..."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"Everything is easy when you are busy, but nothing is easy when you are lazy."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are..."
- Swamy Vivekananda
"The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside..."
- Swamy Vivekananda