World Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.

— Swami Vivekananda

The world has not gone one step beyond idolatry yet.

— Swami Vivekananda

The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.

— Swami Vivekananda

Life in this world is an attempt to see God.

— Swami Vivekananda

In the world take always the position of the giver.

— Swami Vivekananda

Man is the apex of the only world we can ever know.

— Swami Vivekananda

All progression is in the relative world.

— Swami Vivekananda

This world is not for cowards.

— Swami Vivekananda

The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause.

— Swami Vivekananda

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

— Swami Vivekananda

The world cares little for principles. They care for persons.

— Swami Vivekananda

First, believe in the world-that there is meaning behind everything.

— Swami Vivekananda

May blessings and happiness attend every step of your progress in this world.

— Swami Vivekananda

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

— Swami Vivekananda

Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality.

— Swami Vivekananda

On this basic - being right and doing right the whole world can unite.

— Swami Vivekananda

I am a Hindu, I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance.…

— Swami Vivekananda

Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves…

— Swami Vivekananda

Pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are ...but unless you realize…

— Swami Vivekananda

It may be that I shall find it good to get outside of my body - to cast it off like a…

— Swami Vivekananda

A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water;…

— Swami Vivekananda

Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will…

— Swami Vivekananda

The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary…

— Swami Vivekananda

Always discriminate-your body, your house, the people and the world are all absolutely unreal like a dream. Always think that the body…

— Swami Vivekananda

The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman Catholic monk.…

— Swami Vivekananda

You nourish your minds by reading books. There is no good in doing that unless you hold it also as a sacrifice…

— Swami Vivekananda

The present Hindu society is organised only for spiritual men, and hopelessly crushes out everybody else. Why? Where shall they go who…

— Swami Vivekananda

Whether on the ground of materialism, or of intellect, or of spirituality, the compensation that is given by the Lord to every…

— Swami Vivekananda

This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the…

— Swami Vivekananda

He who was Shri Rama, whose stream of love flowed with resistless might even to the Chandala (the outcaste); Oh, who ever…

— Swami Vivekananda

Just as the law of gravitation existed before its discovery and would exist if all humanity forgets it, so it is with…

— Swami Vivekananda

Stick to God! Who cares what comes to the body or to anything else! Through the terrors of evil, say-my God, my…

— Swami Vivekananda

Spirituality brings a class of men who lay exclusive claim to the special powers of the world. The immediate effect of this…

— Swami Vivekananda

It is entirely wrong to think that we have done, or can do, good to the world, or to think that we…

— Swami Vivekananda

Remember the words of Christ: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be…

— Swami Vivekananda

We are all the time, from our childhood, trying to lay the blame upon something outside ourselves. We are always standing up…

— Swami Vivekananda

We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become…

— Swami Vivekananda

Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation…

— Swami Vivekananda

Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the…

— Swami Vivekananda

To many, Indian thought, Indian manners; Indian customs, Indian philosophy, Indian literature are repulsive at the first sight; but let them persevere,…

— Swami Vivekananda