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Swami Vivekananda Quotes | Quotes said by Swami Vivekananda

  • Swami Vivekananda Quote #1

    A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.


  • Swami Vivekananda Quote #2

    A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to.

  • Swami Vivekananda Quote #3

    Animals cannot have any high thoughts; nor can the Angels or Devas attain to direct freedom without human birth.

  • Swami Vivekananda Quote #4

    Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

  • Swami Vivekananda Quote #5

    ARISE, AWAKE AND STOP NOT TILL THE GOAL IS REACHED

  • Swami Vivekananda Quote #6

    Arise,awake and donot stop until the goal is reached.

  • Swami Vivekananda Quote #7

    arise,awake,stop not until your goal is achieved.

  • Swami Vivekananda Quote #8

    As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.

  • Swami Vivekananda Quote #9

    Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

  • Swami Vivekananda Quote #10

    Curiously enough, it seems that at times the spiritual side prevails, and then the materialistic side—in wave-like motions following each other. ...At one time the full flood of materialistic ideas prevails, and everything in this life—prosperity, the education which procures more pleasures, more food—will become glorious at first and then that will degrade and degenerate. Along with the prosperity will rise to white heat all the inborn jealousies and hatreds of the human race. Competition and merciless cruelty will be the watchword of the day. To quote a very commonplace and not very elegant English proverb, Everyone for himself, and the devil take the hindmost, becomes the motto of the day. Then people think that the whole scheme of life is a failure. And the world would be destroyed had not spirituality come to the rescue and lent a helping hand to the sinking world. Then the world gets new hope and finds a new basis for a new building, and another wave of spirituality comes, which in time again declines. As a rule, spirituality brings a class of men who lay exclusive claim to the special powers of the world. The immediate effect of this is a reaction towards materialism, which opens the door to scores of exclusive claims, until the time comes when not only all the spiritual powers of the race, but all its material powers and privileges are centered in the hands of a very few; and these few, standing on the necks of the masses of the people, want to rule them. Then society has to help itself, and materialism comes to the rescue.

  • Swami Vivekananda Quote #11

    Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full fledged devotion to God.

  • Swami Vivekananda Quote #12

    Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.

  • Swami Vivekananda Quote #13

    Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization.

  • Swami Vivekananda Quote #14

    Do not believe in a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe in a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization.

  • Swami Vivekananda Quote #15

    Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.

  • Swami Vivekananda Quote #16

    External nature is only internal nature writ large.

  • Swami Vivekananda Quote #17

    Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.

  • Swami Vivekananda Quote #18

    Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as much as you can in the case of the plant: you can supply the growing seed with the materials for the making up of its body, bringing to it the earth, the water, the air, that it wants. It will take all that it wants by its own nature, it will assimilate and grow by its own nature.

  • Swami Vivekananda Quote #19

    God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

  • Swami Vivekananda Quote #20

    He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God. 

  • Swami Vivekananda Quote #21

    How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree.

  • Swami Vivekananda Quote #22

    If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

  • Swami Vivekananda Quote #23

    If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

  • Swami Vivekananda Quote #24

    Ignorance is the mother of all the evil and all the misery we see. Let men have light, let them be pure and spiritually strong and educated, then alone will misery cease in the world, not before. We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will still continue to exist until man's character changes.

  • Swami Vivekananda Quote #25

    Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, 'I will work out the salvation of this woman or child.

  • Swami Vivekananda Quote #26

    May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.

  • Swami Vivekananda Quote #27

    Never say, O Lord, I am a miserable sinner. Who will help you? You are the help of the universe. What in this universe can help you? What can prevail over you? You are the God of the universe; where can you seek for help? Never help came from anywhere but from yourself. In your ignorance, every prayer that you made and that was answered, you thought was answered by some Being, but you answered the prayer yourself unknowingly. The help came from yourself, and you fondly imagined that someone was sending help to you. There is no help for you outside of yourself; you are the creator of the universe. Like the silkworm, you have built a cocoon around yourself. Who will save you? Burst your own cocoon and come out as a beautiful butterfly, as the free soul. Then alone you will see Truth.

  • Swami Vivekananda Quote #28

    One infinite - pure and holy - beyond thoughts and beyond qualities - bow down to thee

  • Swami Vivekananda Quote #29

    Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

  • Swami Vivekananda Quote #30

    Rituals are the kindergarten of religion. They are absolutely necessary for the world as it is now; only we shall have to give people newer and fresh rituals. A party of thinkers must undertake to do this. Old rituals must be rejected and new ones substituted.

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