The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every successful man must have behind him somewhere tremendous integrity, tremendous sincerity, and that is the cause of his signal success in… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Christ said, "I and my father are one", and you repeat it. Yet it has not helped mankind. For nineteen hundred years… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man is the best mirror, and the purer the man, the more clearly he can reflect God. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings. — 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
If a piece of burning charcoal be placed on a man’s head, see how he struggles to throw it off. Similar will… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
According to us, there are three things in the makeup of man. There is the body, there is the mind, and there… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The kingdom of heaven is already in existence if we will have it, that perfection is already in man if he will… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward! — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Trinitarian Christ is elevated above us; the Unitarian Christ is merely a moral man; neither can help us. The Christ who… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The present Hindu society is organised only for spiritual men, and hopelessly crushes out everybody else. Why? Where shall they go who… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the brute to remain where he is (not to progress); it is the nature of man to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
So we find that in almost every religion these are the three primary things which we have in the worship of God… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What good is this body? Let it go in helping others. Did not the Master preach until the very end? And shall… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man has wanted to look beyond, wanted to expand himself; and all that we call progress, evolution, has been always measured by… — 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
