Swami Vivekananda
25 quotes.
Quotes by Swami Vivekananda
- All the power is within you. You can do anything.
- 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.
- Arise, awake, and stop not until the goal is achieved.
- Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.
- 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.
- Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential.
- Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
- Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.
- Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
- Have faith in yourselves, and stand up on that faith and be strong; that is what we need.
- If you want to find God, serve man. To reach Narayana (God), you must serve the Daridra Narayanas (the poor).
- In a day, when you don’t come across any problems – you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.
- Persevere on, my brave lads. We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!
- Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders and know that you’re the creator of your own destiny.
- Strength is Life, Weakness is Death. Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death. Love is Life, Hatred is Death.
- Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.
- The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
- The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
- The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified.
- The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
- They alone live, who live for others.
- 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.’
- We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
- We want that 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.
- You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.