“Things do not grow better. They remain as they
are; and we grow better by the changes we make in them.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“Be good, and evil will vanish for you. The whole
universe will thus be changed. This is the greatest gain to society. This is
the great gain to the human organism.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities.
Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“Take risks
in your life. If you win, you can lead! If you lose, you can guide!”
― Swami Vivekananda
“Sincerity
of conviction & purity of motive will surely gain the day; and even a small
minority, armed with these, is surely destined to prevail against all odds.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“The
essence of true success is what you make of yourself. It is the conduct of life
that you develop, it is the character that you cultivate and it is the type of
person you become. This is the central meaning of successful living.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be
accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“Arise and awake, for the time is passing & all
our energies will be frittered away in vain talking. Arise and awake, let minor
things and quarrels over little details and fights over little doctrines be
thrown aside, for here is the greatest of all works, here are the sinking
millions…. And first of all, work it out for your own country.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“Go
on remember patience and purity and courage and steady work. . . . So long as
you are pure, and true to your principles, you will never fail.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“May you
be ever possessed of valour! It is the hero alone, not the coward, who has
liberation within his easy reach. Gird up your loins, ye heroes, for before you
are your enemies - the dire army of infatuation. It is undoubtedly true that
"all great achievements are fraught with numerous impediments"; still
you should exert your utmost for your end.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“There is the danger of frittering away your
energies by taking up an idea only for its novelty, and then giving it up for
another that is newer. Take one thing up and do it, and see the end of it, and
before you have seen the end, do not give it up. He who can become mad with an
idea, he alone sees light.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“Have you got the will to surmount mountain-high
obstructions? If the whole world stands against you sword in hand, would you
still dare to do what you think is right?”
― Swami Vivekananda
“All great
undertakings are achieved through mighty obstacles. Keep up the deepest mental
poise. Take not even the slightest notice of what puerile creatures may be
saying against you.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“If it is impossible to attain perfection here and
now, there is no proof that we can attain perfection in any other life.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“Take care! Beware of everything that is untrue;
stick to truth and we shall succeed, maybe slowly, but surely.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“When you are doing any work, do not think of anything
beyond. Do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote your whole life to
it for the time being.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“Never think there is anything impossible for the
soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only
sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“ So
long as you have faith and honesty and devotion, everything will prosper. So
long as there is no feeling of disunion amongst you, through grace of the Lord,
I assure, there is no danger for you. “
― Swami Vivekananda
“All the great accomplishments are hard. Nothing
worthwhile comes easy but do not lower your ideal because it is difficult to
attain. Hold the banner of freedom aloft. Strength... Strength…Strength... Say
that to yourself day and night, you are strong, pure and free. No weakness in
you, no sin, no misery.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“Stand upon the Self, only then can we truly love
the world. Take a very high stand; knowing our universal nature, we must look
with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world. “
― Swami Vivekananda
“The history of the world is the history of a few
men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls the divinity within. You can
do anything. You fail only when you do not strive sufficiently to manifest
infinite power.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“How has all the knowledge in the world been gained
but the concentration of the powers of mind? The world is ready to give its
secrets, if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The
strength and force of the blow come through concentration.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“What work you do expect from the men of little
hearts? Nothing in the world! You must have an iron will if you would cross the
ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“Your success is not measured in terms of what
all you obtained but in term of what you become, how you live and what actions
you do. Upon this point reflect well and attain great happiness.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let
it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else left in the mind; no
place for anything else, no time for anything else.”
― Swami Vivekananda
"Do not go for glass beads leaving the mine of
diamonds. This life is a great chance. What, seekest thou the pleasures of the
world? He is the fountain of all bliss. See for the highest, aim at that
highest, and you shall reach the highest."
― Swami Vivekananda
“The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest
help to us…Throughout the history of mankind, if any motive power has been more
potent than another in the lives of all great men and women, it is that of
faith in themselves.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“Be
always ready to concede to the opinions of your brethren, and try always to
conciliate. That is the whole secret. Fight on bravely! Life is short! Give it
up to a great cause.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“Action will
come. Fill yourselves with the ideal; whatever you do, think well on it. All
your actions will be magnified, transformed, deified, by the very power of the
thought. If matter is powerful, thought is omnipotent. Bring this thought to
bear upon your life, fill yourselves with the thought of your almightiness,
your majesty, and your glory.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“The mind uncontrolled and unguided will drag us
down, down, for ever — rend us, kill us; and the mind controlled and guided
will save us, free us.”
― Swami Vivekananda
They say,
‘Have faith in this fellow or that fellow’, but I say, ‘Have faith in yourself
first’, that’s the way. Have faith in yourself — all power is in you — be
conscious and bring it out. Say, ‘I can do everything.’ ‘Even the poison of a
snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it.’
― Swami Vivekananda
“Every man should take up his own ideal and
endeavour to accomplish it. That is a surer way of progress than taking up
other men's ideals, which he can never hope to accomplish.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“He who
struggles is better than he who never attempts…. Stand up for God; let the
world go. Have no compromise.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“The doors are open for us, and we can all get out
without the competition and struggle; and yet we struggle. The struggle we create
through our own ignorance, through impatience; we are in too great a hurry. The
highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own
feet.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“The ideal man is he who, in the midst of the
greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst
of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert... That
is the ideal of Karma-Yoga, and if you have attained to that you have really
learnt the secret of work.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“Do not be mere white mice in a treadmill, working
always and never accomplishing anything. Every desire is fraught with evil,
whether the desire itself be good or evil.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“Put on all powers, philosophy, work, prayer,
meditation — crowd all sail, put on all head of steam — reach the goal. The
sooner, the better. . . .”
― Swami Vivekananda
“Strength
is life, weakness is death; Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal!
Weakness is constant strain and misery.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“Sincerity of conviction & purity of motive
will surely gain the day; and even a small minority, armed with these, is
surely destined to prevail against all odds.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“The
concentrated mind is the lamp that shows us every corner of the soul. When an
idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical
or mental state.”
― Swami Vivekananda
Choose the highest ideal and live your life up to
that. Look at the “ocean” and not at the “wave”
― Swami Vivekananda
“Never mind
failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures.
What would life be without them? It would not be worth having if it were not
for struggles. Where would be the poetry of life? Never mind the struggles, the
mistakes.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“When once you consider an action, do not let
anything dissuade you. Consult your heart, not others, and then follow its
dictates.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“Know that
every time you feel weak, you not only hurt yourself but also the cause.
Infinite faith and strength are the only conditions of success.”
― Swami Vivekananda
• “What the nation wants is pluck and scientific
genius. We want great spirit, tremendous energy, and boundless enthusiasm.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind
hews its way through a thousand difficulties.”
― Swami Vivekananda
“Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of
truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world. Remember it is
the person, the life, which is the secret of power — nothing else.”
― Swami Vivekananda
To succeed,
you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. "I will drink the
ocean." says the persevering soul, "At my will mountains will crumble
up." Have that sort of energy, that sort of will, work hard, and you will
reach the goal.
― Swami Vivekananda
“The
whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer,
that is all.“
― Swami Vivekananda
"Spread ideas – go from village to village,
from door to door – then only there will be real work. Otherwise, lying
complacently on the bed and ringing the bell now and then is a sort of disease,
pure and simple."
― Swami Vivekananda
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