Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out? — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain — and the whole world is at your feet. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A golden chain is as much a chain as an iron one. Shri Ramakrishna used to say that, to pick out one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigor in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What we want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel. We have wept long enough. No more weeping, but stand on… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
After every happiness comes misery; they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one… — 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
