200+ Swami Vivekananda Quotes – Inspirational Quotes On Success

Swami Vivekananda, the famous Indian philosopher and spiritual leader, cleared out behind a treasure trove of intelligence on victory and self-realization.

This article delves into the profound teachings of the most Popular Swami Vivekananda Quotes, exploring how they offer direction and motivation for success.

Vivekananda’s quotes touch on self-confidence, determination, and pursuing goals. His words are a source of motivation and a roadmap for those seeking success personally and professionally. These quotes continue to resonate across generations, transcending cultural boundaries.

Join our journey through the Inspirational Quotes On Success by Swami Vivekananda. Learn from his wise words that never lose their value, and let them give you the strength to guide your path toward achieving success. Explore the profound insights of this spiritual luminary that have the power to transform your life and aspirations.

Most Popular Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Like me or hate me, both are in my favor, If you like me I am in your Heart, If you hate me I am in your mind. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, the dream of it, 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. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

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

 

God exists within us. ― Swami Vivekananda

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

According to the law of nature, wherever there is an awakening of a new and stronger life, there it tries to conquer and take the place of the old and the decaying. Nature favors the dying out of the unfit and the survival of the fittest. The final result of such conflict between the priestly and the other classes has been mentioned already. — Swami Vivekananda

 

Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

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. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

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

 

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourself. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Arise, awake and don’t stop until the goal is reached. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Talk to yourself at least once in a Day. Otherwise, you may miss a meeting with anEXCELLENT person in this World. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Who is Helping You, Don’t Forget them?

Who is Loving you, Don’t Hate them?

Who is Believing you, Don’t Cheat them? ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

In a day, when you don’t come across any problems—you can be sure that you are traveling in a wrong path. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Take risks in your life, If you win, you can lead! If you lose, you can guide! ― Swami Vivekananda

 

All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is, therefore, the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love’s sake, because it is the law of life, just as you breathe to live. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

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. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Strength is life; weakness is death. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Meditation can turn fools into sages but unfortunately, fools never meditate. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

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

 

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

If I love myself despite my infinite faults, how can I hate anyone at the glimpse of a few faults? – Swami Vivekananda

 

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

 

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. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

By the study of different religions, we find that in essence, they are one. – Swami Vivekananda

 

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. – Swami Vivekananda

 

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Always aim for the best. – Swami Vivekananda

 

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

All great undertakings are achieved through mighty obstacles. Keep up the deepest mental poise. Take not even the slightest notice of what puerile creatures may be saying against you. — Swami Vivekananda

 

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. – Swami Vivekananda

 

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. – Swami Vivekananda

 

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

 

Strength is Life, Weakness is Death.

Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death.

Love is Life, Hatred is Death.

― Swami Vivekananda

 

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak. – Swami Vivekananda

 

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

 

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Arise, awake, sleep no more; within each of you, there is the power to remove all wants and all miseries. Believe this, and that power will be manifested. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Relationships are more important than life, but it is important for those relationships to have life in them…. – Swami Vivekananda

 

The body must be properly taken care of. The people who torture their flesh are demoniacal. – Swami Vivekananda

 

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind because oneness is the secret of everything. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mothers of great deeds. – Swami Vivekananda

 

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

 

The spirit is the cause of all our thoughts and body-action, and everything, but it is untouched by good or evil, pleasure or pain, the heat or cold, and all the dualism of nature, although it lends its light to everything. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Experience is the only teacher we have. we may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

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

 

Strength is the sign of vigor, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, and the sign of everything that is good. As long as the body lives, there must be strength in the body, strength in the mind, strength in the hand. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

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

 

Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.- Swami Vivekananda

 

The will is not free – it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect – but there is something behind the will which is free. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him – that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

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. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

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

 

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Religion should unite not divide. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on economical principles. The value of matter depends solely on its capacity of expressing ideas. — Swami Vivekananda

 

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. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Be not afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

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. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Be the servant while leading. Be unselfish. Have infinite patience, and success is yours. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

They alone live, who live for others. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

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

 

Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being? ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Never say NO, Never say, ‘I cannot’, for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

The only religion that ought to be taught is the religion of fearlessness. Either in this world or in the world of religion, it is true that fear is the sure cause of degradation and sin. It is fear that brings misery, fear that brings death, fear that breeds evil. And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Pure love has no motive. It has nothing to gain. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

We reap what we sow we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind? We make our own destiny. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Education is the manifestation of perfection already in man. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

If you think yourselves strong, strong you will be. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

You should work like a master and not as a slave; work incessantly, but do not do a slave’s work. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in your own mind. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Who is helping you don’t forget them? Who is loving you, don’t hate them? Who is believing you, don’t cheat them.- Swami Vivekananda

 

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

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

 

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

 

YOU know, I may have to be born again, you see, I have fallen in love with mankind. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Success comes with continuous hard work. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

I am the thread that runs through all these pearls,” and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and God is the thread that runs through all of them; most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Never turn back to see the result of what you have done. Give all to the Lord and go on, and think not of it. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

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. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

External nature is only internal nature writ large. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, ‘Thy will be done.’ We only dream of this bondage. Wake up and let it go. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do anything and everything, without even the guidance of anyone. Stand up and express the divinity within you. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

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

 

You are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the Almighty, Omnipresent, Divine Principle. You may laugh at me now, but the time will come when you will understand. You must. Nobody will be left behind. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy—by one, or more, or all of these—and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

The greatest name man ever gave to God is Truth. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book! ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success, and above all: love. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Have faith in yourself — all power is in you. Even the poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished-mountains can be crumbled into atom.v― Swami Vivekananda

 

The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

The reason for every misunderstanding is that we see the people as we are but not as they are. –Swami Vivekananda

 

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

If money helps 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. – Swami Vivekananda

 

TO worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows no reward. Give your love unto to God, but do not ask anything in return even from Him through prayer. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

The only way to grow is by removing toxicity from life. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher.” That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Faith, sympathy – fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord – march on, the Lord is our General. Do not look back to see who falls – forward – onward! Thus and thus we shall go on, brethren. One falls, and another takes up the work. — Swami Vivekananda

 

Whatever you think that you will be. if you think yourself weak, weak you will be if you think yourself strong, you will be. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Despondency is not a religion, whatever else it may be. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Stand firm like a rock. Truth always triumphs. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

GOD is the ever-active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of chaos, made to run for a time and again destroyed. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Whatever you believe, that you will be, If you believe yourselves to be ages, ages you will be tomorrow. There is nothing to obstruct you. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Arise awake and stop not until the goal is achieved. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

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. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Let men have light, let them be pure and spiritually strong and educated, then alone will misery cease in the world, not before. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, “here, my poor man”, but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself. It is not the receiver that is blessed, but it is the giver. Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Fear is just a state of mind. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and everything shall be added unto you.” This is the one great duty, this is renunciation. Live for an ideal, and leave no place in the mind for anything else. Let us put forth all our energies to acquire that which never fails–our spiritual perfection. If we have true yearning for realization, we must struggle, and through struggle, growth will come. We shall make mistakes, but they may be angels unawares. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of manners and customs. It is the same land which stands firmer than any rock in the world, with its undying vigor, indestructible life. Its life is of the same nature as the soul, without beginning and without end, immortal; and we are the children of such a country. — Swami Vivekananda

 

Shri Ramakrishna uses to say, “As Long as I Live, so long do I learn”. That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. – Swami Vivekananda

 

For a warrior, nothing is higher than a war against evil. The warrior confronted with such a war should be pleased, Arjuna, for it comes as an open gate to heaven. But if you do not participate in this battle against evil, you will incur sin, violating your dharma and your honor. – Swami Vivekananda

 

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. – Swami Vivekananda

 

The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women. – Swami Vivekananda

 

A man is not poor without a rupee, but a man is really poor without a dream and ambition. – Swami Vivekananda

 

We came to enjoy ourselves; we are being enjoyed it. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life. – Swami Vivekananda

 

There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are passing now in the hope of getting better things. – Swami Vivekananda

 

You are the creator of your own destiny. – Swami Vivekananda

 

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. – Swami Vivekananda

 

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

 

If superstitions enter, the brain is gone. — Swami Vivekananda

 

All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Youths are building blocks of society. – Swami Vivekananda

 

A tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it; and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run, we are sure to join the Ocean of Life and Bliss. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

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. – Swami Vivekananda

 

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. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Every idea that strengthens you must be taken up and every thought that weakens you must be rejected. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Don’t look back—forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience—then alone can great deeds be accomplished. – Swami Vivekananda

 

When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Come out into the universe of light. Everything in the universe is yours. Stretch out your arms and embrace it with love. If you ever felt you wanted to do that, you have felt God. – Swami Vivekananda

 

The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain — and the whole world is at your feet. – Swami Vivekananda

 

When I asked God for peace, he showed me how to help others. – Swami Vivekananda

 

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Conquer yourself and the whole universe is yours. – Swami Vivekananda

 

If you want to have a life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two forms one whole. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

 

The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Your body is a weapon and consider it very strong. Consider your mind to be very strong as only with a strong mind and body you will be able to cross the ocean of life. Have strong faith in yourself, your body and mind. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Education identifies unrecognized potential within us. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others’ “fads” through the greed of getting supporters. Your Atman is the support of the universe—whose support do you stand in need of? ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

This is the secret of the spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings…scenes on a canvas…of which I am the witness. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Desire, ignorance, and inequality&mdashthis is the trinity of bondage. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Pay particular attention to your health, but too much coddling of the body will, on the contrary, also spoil the health. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

The man who gives way to anger, or hatred, or any other passion, cannot work; he only breaks himself to pieces and does nothing practical. It is a calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Good Motive, Sincerity and Infinite love can conquer the world. One single soul possessed of these virtues can destroy the dark designs of millions of hypocrites and brutes. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Throw away all weakness. tell your body that it is strong. Tell your mind that it is strong and have unbound faith and hope in yourself. – Swami Vivekananda

 

I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world tolerance & universal acceptance. we believe not only in universal toleration but we accept all religion as true. – Swami Vivekananda

 

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

 

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Everything that is excellent will come when this sleeping soul is aroused to self-conscious activity.- Swami Vivekananda

 

Concentration leads to the development of abilities. – Swami Vivekananda

 

All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They know that the soul of all religions is the same and so they have no quarrel with anybody just because he or she does not speak in the same tongue. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment. – Swami Vivekananda

 

A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to. – Swami Vivekananda

 

So long as even a single dog in my country is without food, my whole religion will be to feed it. – Swami Vivekananda

 

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

 

Everything is ended if you forgive and forget. – Swami Vivekananda

 

In criticizing another, we always foolishly take one especially brilliant point as the whole of our life and compare that with the dark ones in the life of another. Thus we make mistakes in judging individuals. – Swami Vivekananda

 

The mistake is that we want to tie the whole world down to our own plane of thought and to make out mind the measure of the whole universe. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Neither money pays, nor name, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that can cleave through adamantine walls of difficulties. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through selfless work. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.  ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Always try to represent yourself happy because initially, it becomes your look. Gradually it becomes your habit and finally, it becomes your personality. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Curiosity and passion are the keys to success. – Swami Vivekananda

 

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

 

It is the duty of all to support and side with Dharma. All must fight and support Dharma regardless of their personality, background, status. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others. – Swami Vivekananda

 

No better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. – Swami Vivekananda

 

It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm. – Swami Vivekananda

 

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Both attachment and detachment perfectly developed make a man great and happy. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Be perfectly resigned, perfectly unconcerned; then alone can you do any true work. No eyes can see the real forces; we can only see the results. Put out self, forget it; just let God work, it is His business. – Swami Vivekananda

 

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.  ― Swami Vivekananda

 

What I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made. – Swami Vivekananda

 

As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative. – Swami Vivekananda

 

The earth is enjoyed by heroes&mdashthis is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Everyone goes with the flow… but the one who goes against the flow becomes someone remarkable in life. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Death is better than a vegetating ignorant life; it is better to die on the battle-field than to live a life of defeat. – Swami Vivekananda

 

This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Every individual is a center for the manifestation of a certain force. This force has been stored up as the resultant of our previous works, and each one of us is born with this force at our back. – Swami Vivekananda

 

The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.  ― Swami Vivekananda

 

See for the highest, aim at the highest, and you shall reach the highest. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow. Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often run from one extreme to the other. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Books never make religions, but religions make books. We must not forget that. No book ever created God, but God inspired all the great books. And no book ever created a soul. – Swami Vivekananda

 

 This is a 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

 

 When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause. – Swami Vivekananda

 

A mongoose is generally kept in a glass case with a long chain attached to it, so that it may go about freely. When it scents danger as it wanders about, with one jump it goes into the glass case. So is a Yogi in this world. – Swami Vivekananda

 

The calmer we are and the less disturbed our nerves, the more shall we love ad the better will our work. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … The character has to be established through a thousand stumbles. – Swami Vivekananda

 

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.  ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Character makes a gentleman. –  Swami Vivekananda

 

In real meditation you forget the body. You may be cut to pieces and not feel it at all. You feel such pleasure in it. You become so light. This perfect rest we will get in meditation. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, I will work out the salvation of this woman or child. – Swami Vivekananda

 

This World will always continue to be a mixture of Good and Evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to Love even the wrongdoer. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly. – Swami Vivekananda

 

If you really my children, you will fear nothing, stop at nothing, you will be like lions,,, My prayers and benedictions follow every step you take… everything will come to you if you have faith. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth-Brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from God. – Swami Vivekananda

 

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

 

He who struggles is better than he who never attempts. – Swami Vivekananda

 

It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one’s own good. ― Swami Vivekananda

 

The Tapas and the other hard Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this Yuga is giving, helping others. – Swami Vivekananda

 

God did not give me everything that I wanted. But, He gave me everything that I needed! – Swami Vivekananda

 

Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom – physical, mental, and spiritual – and help others to do so. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Do not look back upon what has been done. Go Ahead. – Swami Vivekananda

 

What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong. – Swami Vivekananda

 

Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will. – Swami Vivekananda

 

The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant. One who knows is willing to give up his body even for an ant, because he knows that the body is nothing. – Swami Vivekananda