--- title: "12 Masters Quotes By Swami Vivekananda" description: "12 Masters quotes by Swami Vivekananda. Plus more from Swami Vivekananda and more Masters sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f6/swami-vivekananda-53_excellence_only-those-who-want-nothing-are-masters_1099224.jpg" --- > [Only those who want nothing are masters of Nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/only-those-who-want-nothing-are-masters-of-nature/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f6/swami-vivekananda-53_excellence_only-those-who-want-nothing-are-masters_1099224.jpg) > [My Master used to say, when a pitcher is being filled (by immersion), it gurgles, but when full, it is noiseless.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/my-master-used-to-say-when-a-pitcher-is-being-filled-by-immersion-it/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e78/swami-vivekananda-53_filled_my-master-used-to-say-when-a-pitcher-is_1492632.jpg) > [As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/as-soon-as-extreme-attachment-comes-a-man-loses-himself-he-is-no-more/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0b/swami-vivekananda-53_attachment_as-soon-as-extreme-attachment-comes-a-ma_3151351.jpg) > [God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/god-is-self-evident-impersonal-omniscient-the-knower-and-the-master/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/498/swami-vivekananda-53_behinds_god-is-self-evident-impersonal-omniscien_1892143.jpg) > [Every one wants to command, and no one wants to obey; and this is owing to the absence of that wonderful brahmacharya…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/every-one-wants-to-command-and-no-one-wants-to-obey-and-this-is-owing/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a19/swami-vivekananda-53_absence_every-one-wants-to-command-and-no-one-wa_632336.jpg) > [What good is this body? Let it go in helping others. Did not the Master preach until the very end? And shall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/what-good-is-this-body-let-it-go-in-helping-others-did-not-the-master/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee7/swami-vivekananda-53_again-and-again_what-good-is-this-body-let-it-go-in-help_2494928.jpg) > [I am what I am, and what I am is always due to him; whatever in me or in my words is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/i-am-what-i-am-and-what-i-am-is-always-due-to-him-whatever-in-me-or/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d52/swami-vivekananda-53_activity_i-am-what-i-am-and-what-i-am-is-always-d_3201636.jpg) > [My name should not be made prominent. It is my ideas that I want to see realized. The disciples of all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/my-name-should-not-be-made-prominent-it-is-my-ideas-that-i-want-to/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e3/swami-vivekananda-53_disciple_my-name-should-not-be-made-prominent-it_1029838.jpg) > [To injure another creates bondage and hides the truth. Negative virtues are not enough; we have to conquer Maya, and then she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/to-injure-another-creates-bondage-and-hides-the-truth-negative/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/743/swami-vivekananda-53_all-things_to-injure-another-creates-bondage-and-hi_918626.jpg) > [He who is the servant of all is their true master. He never becomes a leader in whose love there is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/he-who-is-the-servant-of-all-is-their-true-master-he-never-becomes-a/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfe/swami-vivekananda-53_consideration_he-who-is-the-servant-of-all-is-their-tr_41870.jpg) > [No doubt it is an evil to be bound by laws, but it is necessary at the immature stage to be guided…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/no-doubt-it-is-an-evil-to-be-bound-by-laws-but-it-is-necessary-at-the/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51e/swami-vivekananda-53_bounds_no-doubt-it-is-an-evil-to-be-bound-by-la_2968158.jpg) > [ \[Not parroting.\] My old Master used to say, "It is all very good to teach the parrot to say, 'Lord, Lord, Lord'… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/not-parroting-my-old-master-used-to-say-it-is-all-very-good-to-teach/) [Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa5/swami-vivekananda-53_argumentation_not-parroting-my-old-master-used-to-say_1463100.jpg) ## Other authors on Masters ## 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/masters/swami-vivekananda/#itemlist", "name": "12 Masters Quotes By Swami Vivekananda", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Only those who want nothing are masters of Nature.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Swami Vivekananda" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/only-those-who-want-nothing-are-masters-of-nature/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f6/swami-vivekananda-53_excellence_only-those-who-want-nothing-are-masters_1099224.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f6/swami-vivekananda-53_excellence_only-those-who-want-nothing-are-masters_1099224.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f6/swami-vivekananda-53_excellence_only-those-who-want-nothing-are-masters_1099224.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Only those who want nothing are masters of Nature.” — Swami Vivekananda", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My Master used to say, when a pitcher is being filled (by immersion), it gurgles, but when full, it is noiseless.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Swami Vivekananda" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/my-master-used-to-say-when-a-pitcher-is-being-filled-by-immersion-it/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e78/swami-vivekananda-53_filled_my-master-used-to-say-when-a-pitcher-is_1492632.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e78/swami-vivekananda-53_filled_my-master-used-to-say-when-a-pitcher-is_1492632.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e78/swami-vivekananda-53_filled_my-master-used-to-say-when-a-pitcher-is_1492632.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“My Master used to say, when a pitcher is being filled (by immersion), it gurgles, but when full, it is…” — Swami Vivekananda", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Swami Vivekananda" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/as-soon-as-extreme-attachment-comes-a-man-loses-himself-he-is-no-more/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0b/swami-vivekananda-53_attachment_as-soon-as-extreme-attachment-comes-a-ma_3151351.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0b/swami-vivekananda-53_attachment_as-soon-as-extreme-attachment-comes-a-ma_3151351.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0b/swami-vivekananda-53_attachment_as-soon-as-extreme-attachment-comes-a-ma_3151351.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.” — Swami Vivekananda", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. 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It is my ideas that I want to see realized. The disciples of all the prophets have always inextricably mixed up the ideas of the Master with person, and at last killed the ideas for the person. The disciples of Sri Ramakrishna must guard against doing the same thing. Work for the idea, not the person.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Swami Vivekananda" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/my-name-should-not-be-made-prominent-it-is-my-ideas-that-i-want-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e3/swami-vivekananda-53_disciple_my-name-should-not-be-made-prominent-it_1029838.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e3/swami-vivekananda-53_disciple_my-name-should-not-be-made-prominent-it_1029838.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e3/swami-vivekananda-53_disciple_my-name-should-not-be-made-prominent-it_1029838.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“My name should not be made prominent. 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