100 Inspirational and Motivational Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

100 Inspirational and Motivational Quotes by Swami Vivekananda:

• Arise, awake, stop not until your goal is achieved.

• Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe.

• Be not afraid , for all great power throughout the history of humanity has been with the people. From out of their ranks have come all the greatest geniuses of the world, and history can only repeat itself. Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work.

• 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.

• 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, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success that is way great spiritual giants are produced.

• If superstition enters, the brain is gone.

• 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; if you think yourselves impure, impure you will be; if you think yourselves pure, pure you will be.

Top 100 Inspirational and Motivational Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

• Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

• Even when you sleep, keep the sword of discrimination at the head of your bed, so that covetousness cannot approach you even in dream.

• Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake, and find the ideal, the goal.

• Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it. 

• There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.

• There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion ‘I am God’ cannot be made with regard to the sense-world.

• Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause.

• Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.

• Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.

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• “Face the brutes.” That is a lesson for all life—face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.

• Don’t look back – forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience. Then alone can great deeds be accomplished.

• To work with undaunted energy! What fear! Who is powerful enough to thwart you.

• If you are really my children, you will fear nothing, stop at nothing. You will be like lions. We must rouse India and the whole world. No cowardice. I will take no nay. Do you understand?

• Man never dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies.

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

• Look upon every man, woman, and everyone as God. You cannot help anyone, you can only serve: serve the children of the Lord, serve the Lord Himself, if you have the privilege.

• Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.

• Say, "I can do everything ." "Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it." 

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

• Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

• Oh, if only you knew yourselves! You are souls; you are Gods. If ever I feel like blaspheming, it is when I call you man.

• You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

• To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.

• "The earth is enjoyed by heroes"— this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero . Always say, "I have no fear".

• If you can think that infinite power, infinite knowledge and indomitable energy lie within you, and if you can bring out that power, you also can become like me.

• You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.

100 Motivational  and Inspirational  Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

• That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

• Hold on to your own ideal. . . . Above all, never attempt to guide or rule others, or, as the Yankees say, "boss" others. Be the servant of all.

• Be not afraid , for all great power throughout the history of humanity has been with the people. From out of their ranks have come all the greatest geniuses of the world, and history can only repeat itself. Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work.

• Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.

• Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

• Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can. Build your hope on none.

• No great work can be achieved by humbug. It is through love, a passion for truth, and tremendous energy, that all undertakings are accomplished.

• Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be; if you think yourself strong, strong you will be.

• There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion ‘I am God’ cannot be made with regard to the sense-world.

• This is the great fact: strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death. 

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

• Oh, if only you knew yourselves! You are souls; you are Gods. If ever I feel like blaspheming, it is when I call you man.

• Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember.

• 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.

• Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.

• Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

• Know that every time you feel weak, you not only hurt yourself but also the cause. Infinite faith and strength are the only conditions of success.

• Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die.

• Cowards only sin , brave men never, no, not even in mind.

• Hold on to your own ideal. . . . Above all, never attempt to guide or rule others, or, as the Yankees say, "boss" others. Be the servant of all.

Best Collection 100 Inspirational and Motivational Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

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

• Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism.

• To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.

• Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

• I want each one of my children to be a hundred times greater than I could ever be. Everyone of you must  be a giant— must, that is my word. Obedience, readiness, and love for the cause— if you have these three, nothing can hold you back.

• Be strong , my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Gita. These are bold words; but I have to say them, for I love you. I know where the shoe pinches.

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

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

• No need for looking behind. FORWARD! We want infinite energy, infinite zeal, infinite courage, and infinite patience, then only will great things achieved.

• As soon as you know the voice and understand what it is, the whole scene changes. The same world which was the ghastly battlefield of maya is now changed into something good and beautiful.

• This, I have seen in life – those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step. Those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace; and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.

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

• Let people say whatever they like , stick to your own convictions, and rest assured, the world will be at your feet. They say, 'Have faith in this fellow or that fellow', but, I say, 'Have faith in yourself first'. that's the way.

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

• As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this universe.

• This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is stronger.

• 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.' Have that sort of energy, that sort of will, work hard, and you will reach the goal. 

• Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin ? to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

• 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.

• Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.

• I want each one of my children to be a hundred times greater than I could ever be. Everyone of you must  be a giant— must, that is my word. Obedience, readiness, and love for the cause— if you have these three, nothing can hold you back.

• The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

• All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.

 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda -100 Inspirational and Motivational 

• Neither numbers nor powers nor wealth nor learning nor eloquence nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one word, anubhuti, realisation. Let there be a dozen such lion-souls in each country, lions who have broken their own bonds, who have touched the Infinite, whose whole soul is gone to Brahman, who care neither for wealth nor power nor fame, and these will be enough to shake the world.

• Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.

• Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind. Therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.

• Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will be revolutionized.

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

• Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

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

• If you are really my children, you will fear nothing, stop at nothing. You will be like lions. We must rouse India and the whole world. No cowardice. I will take no nay. Do you understand?

• When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work.

• Nature, body, mind go to death, not we. We neither go nor come. The man Vivekananda is in nature, is born and dies. But the Self we see as Vivekananda is never born and never dies. It is the eternal and unchangeable Reality.

• Be a hero. Always say, ‘I have no fear.’ Tell this to everyone – ‘Have no fear.’

• "The earth is enjoyed by heroes"— this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero . Always say, "I have no fear".

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

• The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do. When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work.

• The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a religious life. The more sects there are, the more opportunities there are for making a successful appeal to the divine instinct in all of us.

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

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

• That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

• Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.

• ‘Comfort’ is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being ‘comfortable’.

• 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.

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

• It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.

• Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

• Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure if you look back upon your lives you will find that you were always vainly trying to get help from others which never came.

• However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite.

• Do not be afraid of a small beginning. great things come afterwards. Be courageous. Do not try to lead your brethren, but serve them. The brutal mania for leading has sunk many a great ships in the waters of life. Take care especially of that, i.e. be unselfish even unto death, and work.

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

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

• Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness. Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world.

• Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin ? to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

• Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!

• So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.

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

• Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will be revolutionized.

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