Swami Vivekananda Quotes

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

Never say, "O Lord, I am a miserable sinner." Who will help you? You are the help of the universe. W...

Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares t...

All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He wh...

The Buddhists or the Jains do not depend upon God; but the whole force of their religion is directed...

He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God. 

Ignorance is the mother of all the evil and all the misery we see. Let men have light, let them be p...

He (God) reveals himself to the pure heart.

If I am unhappy, it has been of my own making, and that very thing shows that I can be happy if I wi...

stand up, be bold. you are the sole and only cause.

all misery comes from fear, from unsatisfied desire.

the man who is pure, and who dares, does all things.

always keep your mind joyful; if melancholy thoughts come, kick them out.

flying from work is never the way to find peace.

stick to truth and we shall succeed, may be slowly, but surely.

it is only those who persevere to the end that succeed.

Vairâgya or renunciation is the turning point in all the various Yogas. The Karmi (worker) renounces...

Curiously enough, it seems that at times the spiritual side prevails, and then the materialistic sid...

if you want to help others, your little self must go.

infinite faith and strength are the only conditions of success.

first build up your physique. then only you can get control over the mind.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let th...

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reve...

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at...

Strength is Life, Weakness is Death".

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

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

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

The natural ambition of woman is through marriage to climb up, leaning upon a man; but those days ar...

The Christian is not to become a Hindu or a Buddhist, nor is a Hindu or a Buddhist to become a Chris...

Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no o...

You must worship the Self in Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tende...

This human body is the greatest body in the universe, and a human being the greatest being. Man is h...

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is ...

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of every...

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will...

Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make...

Never mind failures; they are quite natural,they are the beauty of life, these failures.What would b...

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no o...

Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no retur...

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

They alone live, who live for others.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Strength is Life, Weakness is Death.Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death.Love is Life, Hatred is ...

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no o...

Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as much...

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.

Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.

MIND is not a dustbin to keep anger, hatred and jealousy. But it is the treasure box to keep, love h...

How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it...

The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant.One who knows is willing to give up his body even fo...

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

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in...

Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because anot...

Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha...

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

May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Budd...

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion...

We are what our thoughts have made us so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Though...

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of ev...

Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confine...

if you want to do a great or a good work, do not trouble to think what the result will be.

Though our castes and institutions are apparently linked with our religion, they are not so. These i...

We must also remember that in every little village-god and every little superstitious custom is that...