Ideals Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else.

— Swami Vivekananda

None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.

— Swami Vivekananda

We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us".

— Swami Vivekananda

The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.

— Swami Vivekananda

Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature…

— Swami Vivekananda

Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great…

— Swami Vivekananda

To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life.

— Swami Vivekananda

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this…

— Swami Vivekananda

If you have not even a little imagination, you are simply a brute. So you must not lower your ideal, neither are…

— Swami Vivekananda

I want to start two institutions, one in Madras and one in Calcutta, to carry out my plan; and that plan briefly…

— Swami Vivekananda

Hold on to your own ideal. . . . Above all, never attempt to guide or rule others, or, as the Yankees…

— Swami Vivekananda

Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind…

— Swami Vivekananda

If there be no eternal life, still the enjoyment of spiritual thoughts as ideals is keener and makes a man happier, whilst…

— Swami Vivekananda

Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing…

— Swami Vivekananda

My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to…

— Swami Vivekananda

I direct my attention to the individual, to make him strong, to teach him that he himself is divine, and I call…

— Swami Vivekananda

Renunciation - non-resistance - non-destructiveness - are the ideals to be attained through less and less worldliness, less and less resistance, less…

— Swami Vivekananda

If the Lord wills, we shall make this Math a great centre of harmony. Our Lord is the visible embodiment of the…

— Swami Vivekananda

Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It…

— Swami Vivekananda

That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you…

— Swami Vivekananda

Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness comes to an end. It is a mistake to suppose…

— Swami Vivekananda

Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, and above…

— Swami Vivekananda

In India the mother is the center of the family and our highest ideal. She is to us the representative of God,…

— Swami Vivekananda

Wherever there is evil and wherever there is ignorance and want of knowledge, I have found out by experience that all evil…

— Swami Vivekananda

Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.

— Swami Vivekananda

The progress of the world through all its evils making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely.

— Swami Vivekananda

See how the Ganga flows by and what a nice building! I like this place. This is the ideal kind of place…

— Swami Vivekananda

The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the…

— Swami Vivekananda

Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else…

— Swami Vivekananda

Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake,…

— Swami Vivekananda

Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole…

— Swami Vivekananda

Never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the…

— Swami Vivekananda

The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught…

— Swami Vivekananda

Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one. Have faith…

— Swami Vivekananda

Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and everything shall be added unto you. This is the one great duty, this is…

— Swami Vivekananda

There can be no love so long as there is lust- even a speck of it, as it were, in the heart.…

— Swami Vivekananda

The fault with all religions like Christianity is that they have one set of rules for all. But Hindu religion is suited…

— Swami Vivekananda

Doing is very good, but that comes from thinking. Little manifestations of energy through the muscles are called work. But where there…

— Swami Vivekananda

Action will come. Fill yourselves with the ideal; whatever you do, think well on it. All your actions will be magnified, transformed,…

— Swami Vivekananda

The secret of Greek Art is its imitation of nature even to the minutest details; whereas the secret of Indian Art is…

— Swami Vivekananda