The progress of the world through all its evils making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I want to start two institutions, one in Madras and one in Calcutta, to carry out my plan; and that plan briefly… — 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
Renunciation - non-resistance - non-destructiveness - are the ideals to be attained through less and less worldliness, less and less resistance, less… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, and above… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
See how the Ganga flows by and what a nice building! I like this place. This is the ideal kind of place… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Action will come. Fill yourselves with the ideal; whatever you do, think well on it. All your actions will be magnified, transformed,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Doing is very good, but that comes from thinking. Little manifestations of energy through the muscles are called work. But where there… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one. Have faith… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Hold on to your own ideal. . . . Above all, never attempt to guide or rule others, or, as the Yankees… — 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
