Swami Vivekananda Quotes

The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful

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

They alone live, who live for others.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

Just as the body has its progress and decadence, so also has the mind, and, therefore, the mind is not the soul, because the soul can neither decay nor degenerate.

Everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by the conditions of space, time, and causation.

Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the race, and the nation must go down.

Science and religion will meet and shake hands.

As long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from God, fear remains with us; but when we know ourselves to be the One, fear goes; of what can we be afraid.?

The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game.

We are suffering from our own Karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed?. . .

If a man, day and night, thinks he is miserable, low and nothing, nothing he becomes. If you say yea, yea, "I am, I am", so shall you be.

Religion is the one and sole interest of the people of India.

To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life.

The Absolute is the material of both God and man.

My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.

The Absolute God of the universe, the creator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe, is impersonal principle.

While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many.

There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing.

Christians are always wanting God to give them something. They appear as beggars before the throne of the Almighty.

This universe is the wreckage of the infinite on the shores of the finite.

Know full well that patience is the best means of succeeds.

We can have no conception of God higher than man, so our God is man, and man is God.

As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate.

This World will always continue to be a mixture of Good and Evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to Love even the wrongdoer.

Meditation is the means of unification of the subject and object. Meditate.

Throw aside your scriptures in the Ganga and teach the people first the means of procuring their food and clothing, and then you will find time to read to them the scriptures.

The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone.

To work with undaunted energy! What fear! Who is powerful enough to thwart you.

To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion.

Principles must conquer in the long run, for that is the manhood of man.

Strength is life, Weakness is death.

It is impossible to think about the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. It is impossible for a bird to fly on only one wing.

We are what our thoughts have made us

Change of the unchangeable would be a contradiction.

Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.

Friends or foes, they are all instruments in Her hands to help us work out our own karma, through pleasure or pain. As such, 'Mother' bless all.

I stand for truth. Truth will never ally itself with falsehood. Even if all the world should be against me, Truth must prevail in the end.

All motion in this universe is in the form of waves, successively rising and falling.

Let us worship the spirit in spirit, standing on spirit. Let the foundation be spirit, the middle spirit, the culmination spirit.

The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought.

In the primal state before any manifestation, when there was no motion but perfect balance, this Prakriti was indestructible, because decomposition or death comes from instability or change.

If you dare declare that you are free, free you are this moment. If you say you are bound, bound you will remain.

Go on saying, I am free. Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, I am bound. Dehypnotize the whole thing.

Purity, perseverance, and energy- these three I want.

You are the creator of your own destiny

We are all born cowards.

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

Put God behind everything-human beings, animals, food, and work. Make this a habit.

Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. The moment you fear, you are nobody. Be a hero. Always say, 'I have no fear'. Tell this to everybody-'Have no fear'.