Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We have wept enough. No more weeping, but stand on feet and be men. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Have faith in yourselves, and stand up on that faith and be strong; that is what we need. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do not say, ‘You are bad’; say only, ‘You are good’, but be better! — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you can think that infinite power, infinite knowledge and indomitable energy lie within you, and if you can bring out that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Talk to yourself atleast once in a Day.. Otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World... — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
. . . If you are really my children, you will fear nothing, stop at nothing. You will be like lions. We… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Stamping down the weakness of mind and heart, stand up, saying, "I am possessed of heroism, I am possessed of a steady… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Look upon every man, woman, and everyone as God. You cannot help anyone, you can only serve: serve the children of the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Hold on to your own ideal. . . . Above all, never attempt to guide or rule others, or, as the Yankees… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Those that only take a nibble here and a nibble there will never attain anything ... Those who really want to be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I love my nation, I cannot see you degraded, weakened any more than you are now. Therefore I am bound for your… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A nation is not to be judged by its weaklings called the wicked, as they are only the weeds which lag behind,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I want each one of my children to be a hundred times greater than I could ever be. Everyone of you must… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Be strong , my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you have not even a little imagination, you are simply a brute. So you must not lower your ideal, neither are… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We want Shraddhâ, we want faith in our own selves. Strength is life, weakness is death. 'We are the Âtman, deathless and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
For the next fifty years this alone shall be our keynote - this, our great Mother India. Let all other vain gods… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Strength, strength is what the Upanishads speak to me from every page. This is the one great thing to remember, it has… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can. Build your hope on none. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man never dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from God, fear remains with us; but when we know… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Onward, my brave boys - money or no money - men or no men! Have you love? Have you God? Onward and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Proclaim the glory of the Atman with the roar of a lion, and impart fearlessness unto all beings by saying, 'Arise, awake,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves. Therefore make your own future. "Let the dead past bury its dead." The infinite… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life in you.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
“there is a continuity of mind, as the Yogis call it. The mind is universal. Your mind, my mind, all these little minds, are… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
