--- title: "9 Dare Quotes By Swami Vivekananda" description: "9 Dare quotes by Swami Vivekananda. Plus more from Swami Vivekananda and more Dare sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/797/swami-vivekananda-53_children_liberty-is-the-first-condition-of-growth_670856.jpg" --- > [Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, 'I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/liberty-is-the-first-condition-of-growth-it-is-wrong-a-thousand-times/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/797/swami-vivekananda-53_children_liberty-is-the-first-condition-of-growth_670856.jpg) > [If you dare declare that you are free, free you are this moment. If you say you are bound, bound you will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/if-you-dare-declare-that-you-are-free-free-you-are-this-moment-if-you/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ba/swami-vivekananda-53_bondage_if-you-dare-declare-that-you-are-free-fr_2274437.jpg) > [There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/there-may-be-a-million-microbes-of-misery-floating-about-us-never/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3d/swami-vivekananda-53_approach_there-may-be-a-million-microbes-of-miser_1112062.jpg) > [Truth alone triumphs, not untruth. Through truth alone lies the way to Devayana (the way to the gods). Those who think that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/truth-alone-triumphs-not-untruth-through-truth-alone-lies-the-way-to/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a1d/swami-vivekananda-53_all-things_truth-alone-triumphs-not-untruth-through_2579851.jpg) > [Each one of you has a glorious future if you dare believe me. Have a tremendous faith in yourselves, like the faith…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/each-one-of-you-has-a-glorious-future-if-you-dare-believe-me-have-a/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e1/swami-vivekananda-53_believe_each-one-of-you-has-a-glorious-future-if_1596731.jpg) > [For a time it seemed inevitable that the surging tide of agnosticism and materialism would sweep all before it. There were those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/for-a-time-it-seemed-inevitable-that-the-surging-tide-of-agnosticism/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e32/swami-vivekananda-53_agnosticism_for-a-time-it-seemed-inevitable-that-the_2909127.jpg) > [What the world wants today is twenty men and women who can dare to stand in the street yonder and say that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/what-the-world-wants-today-is-twenty-men-and-women-who-can-dare-to/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68b/swami-vivekananda-53_dare_what-the-world-wants-today-is-twenty-men_1110851.jpg) > [There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/there-are-hundreds-of-thousands-of-microbes-surrounding-us-but-they-2/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/159/swami-vivekananda-53_approach_there-are-hundreds-of-thousands-of-micro_2248129.jpg) > [Everything that can weaken us as a race we have had for the last thousand years. It seems as if during that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/everything-that-can-weaken-us-as-a-race-we-have-had-for-the-last/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c56/swami-vivekananda-53_blood_everything-that-can-weaken-us-as-a-race_1864935.jpg) ## Other authors on Dare ## More by Swami Vivekananda > [Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/every-action-that-helps-us-manifest-our-divine-nature-more-and-more/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [Holiness sincerity, and faith.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/holiness-sincerity-and-faith/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/the-hindus-have-a-peculiar-slovenliness-in-business-matters-not-being/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [Renunciation is in our blood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/renunciation-is-in-our-blood/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/let-positive-strong-helpful-thoughts-enter-into-your-brains-from-very/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/where-can-we-go-to-find-god-if-we-cannot-see-him-in-our-own-hearts/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/it-is-the-free-alone-which-never-changes-and-the-unchangeable-alone/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [Above all, India is the land of religion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/above-all-india-is-the-land-of-religion/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/the-awakening-of-the-soul-to-its-bondage-and-its-effort-to-stand-up/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [It is the Prana that is manifesting as motion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/it-is-the-prana-that-is-manifesting-as-motion/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/though-an-atom-is-invisible-unthinkable-yet-in-it-are-the-whole-power/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/nothing-can-be-produced-without-a-cause-and-the-effect-is-but-the/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves. Therefore make your own future. "Let the dead past bury its dead." The infinite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/all-the-strength-and-succour-you-want-is-within-yourselves-therefore/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life in you.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/be-brave-be-strong-be-fearless-once-you-have-taken-up-the-spiritual/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) > [“there is a continuity of mind, as the Yogis call it. The mind is universal. Your mind, my mind, all these little minds, are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/there-is-a-continuity-of-mind-as-the-yogis-call-it-the-mind-is/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dare/swami-vivekananda/#itemlist", "name": "9 Dare Quotes By Swami Vivekananda", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Liberty is the first condition of growth. 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There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened. This is the great fact: strength is life. Weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal. 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It seems as if during that period the national life had this one end in view, viz how to make us weaker and weaker, till we have become real earthworms, crawling at the feet of every one who dares to put his foot on us. 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