Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I direct my attention to the individual, to make him strong, to teach him that he himself is divine, and I call… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There can be no love so long as there is lust- even a speck of it, as it were, in the heart.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the… — 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
In India the mother is the center of the family and our highest ideal. She is to us the representative of God,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The secret of Greek Art is its imitation of nature even to the minutest details; whereas the secret of Indian Art is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If the Lord wills, we shall make this Math a great centre of harmony. Our Lord is the visible embodiment of the… — 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
Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Wherever there is evil and wherever there is ignorance and want of knowledge, I have found out by experience that all evil… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If there be no eternal life, still the enjoyment of spiritual thoughts as ideals is keener and makes a man happier, whilst… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and everything shall be added unto you. This is the one great duty, this is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness comes to an end. It is a mistake to suppose… — 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
