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Best Self Quotes by Swami Vivekananda
- Learn obedience first. Among these Western nations, with such a high spirit of independence, the spirit of obedience is equally strong. We are all of…
- Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe.
- This is the great lesson that we are here to learn through myriads of births and heavens and hells-that there is nothing to be asked…
- Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe.
- Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self.
- It is very difficult to understand why in this country [India] so much difference is made between men and women, whereas the Vedanta declares that…
- Today the West is awakening to its wants; and the "true self of man and spirit" is the watchword of the advanced school of Western…
- He who conquers self conquers all.
- According to this philosophy, each man consists of three parts - the body, the internal organ or the mind, and behind that, what is called…
- Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on us," as in…
- Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body that work, not…
- Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri Krishna declares.
- You nourish your minds by reading books. There is no good in doing that unless you hold it also as a sacrifice to the whole…
- Is there any sex-distinction in the Atman (Self)? Out with the differentiation between man and woman—all is Atman! Give up the identification with the body,…
- Without birth or death, eternal, ever-existing, free, unchangeable and beyond all conditions is this Soul of man - the real Self of Man - the…
More Self Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster