Swami Vivekananda quotes

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Arise, awake and stop not until the goal is reached.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

All power is within you; you can do anything and everything.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him – that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but to realize that the kingdom of God is within you, and that you can become a saint, a great soul, by refusing to be miserable.

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

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.

Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.

Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.

Do one thing at a time and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.

Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success, and above all, love.

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

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

To do evil, a human being has to think positively, has to deliberately think positively.

Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.

Learn everything that is good from others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

Strength is life, weakness is death.

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so; if you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think.

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.

Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, daringly say. He is my only refuge, the goal of my desires; He is my only God.

The less egoism, the more greatness. Egoism clouds and distorts everything.

Have faith in yourself. All power is in you. Be conscious and bring it out.

Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you, if you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.

Take risks in your life. If you win, you can lead; if you lose, you can guide.

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.

As long as you have attachment to the body and attachment to objects, fear and suffering will be with you.

Learn to be alone and to like it. There is nothing more empowering or liberating than learning to like your own company.

Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

The biggest sin is to think that you are weak.

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him or her – that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified and Gods will be in them.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

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