--- title: "7 Guides Quotes By Swami Vivekananda" description: "7 Guides quotes by Swami Vivekananda. Plus more from Swami Vivekananda and more Guides sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/948/swami-vivekananda-53_guides_take-risks-in-your-life-if-u-win-u-can-l_370920.jpg" --- > [Take Risks in Your Life If u Win, U Can Lead! If u Lose, U Can Guide!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/take-risks-in-your-life-if-u-win-u-can-lead-if-u-lose-u-can-guide/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/948/swami-vivekananda-53_guides_take-risks-in-your-life-if-u-win-u-can-l_370920.jpg) > [The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/the-best-guide-in-life-is-strength-in-religion-as-in-all-other/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c4/swami-vivekananda-53_guides_the-best-guide-in-life-is-strength-in-re_454640.jpg) > [The guide, the guru, the leader, the teacher, has passed away; the boy, the student, the servant, is left behind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/the-guide-the-guru-the-leader-the-teacher-has-passed-away-the-boy-the/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a7/swami-vivekananda-53_behinds_the-guide-the-guru-the-leader-the-teache_719924.jpg) > [The best guide in life is strength.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/the-best-guide-in-life-is-strength/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b9b/swami-vivekananda-53_guides_the-best-guide-in-life-is-strength-16626_1662601.jpg) > [Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, U Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/take-risks-in-your-life-if-you-win-u-can-lead-if-you-lose-you-can/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b1c/swami-vivekananda-53_guides_take-risks-in-your-life-if-you-win-u-can_1893454.jpg) > [Anything that is secret and mysterious in this system of Yoga should be at once rejected. The best guide in life is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/anything-that-is-secret-and-mysterious-in-this-system-of-yoga-should/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/380/swami-vivekananda-53_brain_anything-that-is-secret-and-mysterious-i_2330118.jpg) > [Hold on to your own ideal. . . . Above all, never attempt to guide or rule others, or, as the Yankees…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/hold-on-to-your-own-ideal-above-all-never-attempt-to-guide-or-rule/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/940/swami-vivekananda-53_boss_hold-on-to-your-own-ideal-above-all-neve_3225284.jpg) ## Other authors on Guides ## 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/guides/swami-vivekananda/#itemlist", "name": "7 Guides Quotes By Swami Vivekananda", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Take Risks in Your Life If u Win, U Can Lead! 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