Swami Vivekananda Quotes

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

In a day, when you don’t come across any problems, you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.

Take risks in your life. If you win, you can lead; if you lose, you can guide.

The more you think of yourself as shining immortal soul, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free of matter, body, and senses.

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.

The greatest sin is to think that you are weak.

All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak.

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thoughts lead, and dare to carry that out in your life.

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.

Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; 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. This is the way to success.

He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

It is the mind that makes the body rich and the mind that makes the body poor.

Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

Learn everything that is good from others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.

Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work – this is the only way.

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

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

Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

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

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.

To be free is the same as to be spiritual; to be spiritual is the same as to be alive.

Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes.

You are the creator of your own destiny.

Choose the highest ideal and live your life up to that. Look at the ‘ocean’ and not at the wave.

He who sees Shiva in the poor, in the weak, and in the diseased, really worships Shiva.

Do not hate anybody because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.

Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work.

The difference between a pessimist and an optimist is that the pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, while the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

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.

Every action that helps us manifest our divine potential more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Experience is the only teacher we have.

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.

Preach unto them step by step… until they understand their dignity; but if you fail, if all your efforts fail, the end comes there, so far as they are concerned.

The greatest mistake is to think you are weak.

Do not care for anybody else, for there is nobody for you but me.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

You have to learn to spiritualize that power and turn it lie down.

Be strong! …You talk about ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth.

See for the highest, aim at that highest, and you shall reach the highest.

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

Gather strength. Stand up. Succeed.

You are the creator of your own destiny.