Swami Vivekananda Quotes
Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.
Never say NO, Never say, 'I cannot', for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything.
Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals, But because of the inactivities of the good people.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Purity, patience and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all love.
When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.
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.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain — and the whole world is at your feet.
So long as even a single dog in my country is without food, my whole religion will be to feed it.
Relationships are more important than life,but it is important for those relationships to have life in them
We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.
A Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten.
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
Never turn back to see the result of what you have done. Give all to the Lord and go on, and think not of it.
Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause.
Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.
Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower.
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Everyone goes with the flow... but the one who goes against the flow becomes someone remarkable in life.
If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.
Never producing pain by thought, word, and deed, in any living being, is what is called Ahimsâ, non-injury.
Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.
Every idea that strengthens you must be taken up and every thought that weakens you must be rejected.
Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can. Build your hope on none.
Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.
Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing ones.
Talk to yourself atleast once in a Day.. Otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World.
The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being.
There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation.