Praise and blame, good and bad, even heat and cold, must be equally acceptable to us. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When the last moment arrives, praise and blame will be the same to you, to me, and to others. We are here… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Each one of us reaps what we ourselves have sown. These miseries under which we suffer, these bondages under which we struggle,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If the whole responsibility is thrown upon our own shoulders, we shall be at our highest and best; when we have nobody… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As soon as we react, we become slaves. A man blames me, and I immediately react in the form of anger. A… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We do not look at our own faults; the eyes do not see themselves, they see the eyes of everybody else. We… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Struggle hard and then if you do not succeed, you are not to blame. Let the world praise or blame you. Let… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Give up all self, all egotisms get out of anger, lust, give all to God. "I am not, but Thou art; the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is the witness alone that can work without any desire, without any idea of going to heaven, without any idea of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us". — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Who shall blame whom, who praise whom? Whom to seek, whom to avoid? I seek none, nor avoid any, for I am… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We are all the time, from our childhood, trying to lay the blame upon something outside ourselves. We are always standing up… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We are slaves in the hands of nature - slaves to a bit of bread, slaves to praise, slaves to blame, slaves… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do you know this Sanskrit Shloka: "Let those who are versed in the ethical codes praise or blame, let Lakshmi, the goddess… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Where is fate and who is fate? We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You yourself are to blame. This weeping and wailing and knocking your heads into corners [against brick walls, as it were] will… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When we suffer, it is because of our own acts; God is not to be blamed for it. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Do not blame any supernatural being, neither be hopeless and despondent, nor think we are in a place from which we can… — 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 Image
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — 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 and paralysing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
