Those who have succeeded in attaching or detaching their minds at will have succeeded in Pratyahara, which means gathering towards, checking the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We must recognise that duty and morality vary under different circumstances; not that the man who resists evil is doing what is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Arise! Arise! A tidal wave is coming! Onward! Men and women, down to the Chandala (Pariah) - all are pure in his… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To injure another creates bondage and hides the truth. Negative virtues are not enough; we have to conquer Maya, and then she… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I pity the Hindu who does not see the beauty in Jesus Christ's character. I pity the Christian who does not reverence… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The road to gooď is the roughest and steepest in the universe. It is a wonder that so many succeed, no wonder… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is to be found in every religion the manifestation of the struggle toward freedom. It is the groundwork of all morality,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Never forget that a man is made great and perfect as much by his faults as by his virtues. So we must… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In the English character, the "give and take" policy, the business principle of the trader, is principally inherent. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
My hope of the future lies in the youths of character, intelligent, renouncing all for the service of others, and obedient -… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Whatever others think or do, lower not your standard of purity, morality and love of God. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The fault with all religions like Christianity is that they have one set of rules for all. But Hindu religion is suited… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Good and evil have an equal share in moulding character, and in some instances misery is a greater teacher than happiness.” — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life. We… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . . — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The more we grow in Love, Virtue and Holiness, the more we see Love, Virtue and Holiness outside. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his… — 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
