Swami Vivekananda Quotes :
Here are some inspiring quotes by Swami Vivekananda you may like.
“ In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart. ”
“ 3 Golden rules!! Who is helping you, don’t forget them. Who is loving you, don’t hate them. Who is trusting you, don’t cheat them. ”
“ Be the servant while leading. Be unselfish. Have infinite patience, and success is yours. ”
“ 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. ”
“ You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. ”
“ The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves. ”
“ The greatest sin is to think that you are weak.”
“ Arise, awake and do not stop until the goal is reached. ”
“ 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. ”
“ 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. ”
“ Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man ”
“ Have faith in yourself — all power is in you. Even the poison of a snake is powerless, if you can firmly deny it. ”
“ In a day, when you don’t come across any problems – you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path”
“ You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. ”
“ 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. ”
“ When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state. ”
“ 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. ”
“ Take risks in your life, If you win, you can lead! If you loose, you can guide! ”
“ Meditation can turn fools in to sages but unfortunately fools never meditate. ”
“ Strength is Life, Weakness is Death. Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death. Love is Life, Hatred is Death. ”
“ The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge. ”
“ Where can we go to find GOD if we cannot see him in ours own hearts and in every living being. ”
“ Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment. ”
“ Neither money pays, not name, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that an cleave through adamantine walls of difficulties. ”
“ We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. ”
“ 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. ”
“ Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable. ”
“ We are what our thought have made us; So take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; They travel far. ”
“ The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. ”
“ Anything that makes weak – physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison. ”
“ Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true. ”
“ They alone live, who live for others. ”
“ External nature is only internal nature writ large. ”
“ All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything. ”
“ Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes. ”
“ 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. ”
“ The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them. ”
“ Conquer yourself and the whole universe is yours. ”
“ The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. ”
“ 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. ”
“ God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life. ”
“ 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. ”
“ 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. ”
“ The will is not free – it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect – but there is something behind the will which is free. ”
“ External nature is only internal nature writ large. ”
“ Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else. ”
“ 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. ”
“ Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others. ”
“ If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better. ”
“ 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. ”
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