Motivational Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

— Swami Vivekananda

Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

— Swami Vivekananda

Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!

— Swami Vivekananda

Be strong, get beyond all superstitions, and be free.

— Swami Vivekananda

Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.

— Swami Vivekananda

Superstition is great enemy of man but bigotry is worse.

— Swami Vivekananda

Be a hero. Always say, 'I have no fear.' Tell this to everyone - 'Have no fear.'

— Swami Vivekananda

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.

— Swami Vivekananda

Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening…

— Swami Vivekananda

Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the…

— Swami Vivekananda

As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this…

— Swami Vivekananda

You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains.

— Swami Vivekananda

If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.

— Swami Vivekananda

Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of…

— Swami Vivekananda

Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember.

— Swami Vivekananda

As long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from God, fear remains with us; but when we know…

— Swami Vivekananda

No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion,…

— 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

Be strong , my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through…

— Swami Vivekananda

I love my nation, I cannot see you degraded, weakened any more than you are now. Therefore I am bound for your…

— Swami Vivekananda

A nation is not to be judged by its weaklings called the wicked, as they are only the weeds which lag behind,…

— Swami Vivekananda

I want each one of my children to be a hundred times greater than I could ever be. Everyone of you must…

— Swami Vivekananda

Each one of you has a glorious future if you dare believe me. Have a tremendous faith in yourselves, like the faith…

— Swami Vivekananda

No one step back, that is the idea… Fight it out, whatever comes. Let the stars move from the sphere! Let the…

— Swami Vivekananda

We have seemingly been divided, limited, because of our ignorance; and we have become as it were the little Mrs. so -…

— Swami Vivekananda

Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigor in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles…

— Swami Vivekananda

Advance like a hero. Do not be thwarted by anything. How many days will this body last, with its happiness and misery?…

— Swami Vivekananda

I am one of the proudest men ever born, but let me tell you frankly, it is not for myself, but on…

— Swami Vivekananda

If the suns come down, and the moons crumble into dust, and systems after systems are hurled into annihilation, what is that…

— Swami Vivekananda

But on the heights of the Himalayas I have a place where I am determined nothing shall enter except pure truth. There…

— Swami Vivekananda

God is true. The universe is a dream. Blessed am I that I know this moment that I have been and shall…

— Swami Vivekananda

Strength, strength is what the Upanishads speak to me from every page. This is the one great thing to remember, it has…

— Swami Vivekananda

To work with undaunted energy! What fear! Who is powerful enough to thwart you.

— Swami Vivekananda

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

— Swami Vivekananda

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

— Swami Vivekananda

Have faith in yourselves, and stand up on that faith and be strong; that is what we need.

— Swami Vivekananda

Do not say, ‘You are bad’; say only, ‘You are good’, but be better!

— Swami Vivekananda

To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will.

— Swami Vivekananda

We have wept enough. No more weeping, but stand on feet and be men.

— Swami Vivekananda

Man never dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies.

— Swami Vivekananda