Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Effort

• Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Character, Long

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.22, Advaita Ashrama

• What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it. One looks for name and fame and covers his efforts to obtain them with the enamel of charity and good works. He is working for himself under the pretext of working for others. Every so-called charity is an encouragement of the very evil it claims to operate against.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Encouragement, Names, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2593, Manonmani Publishers

• The hard discipline, with the exception of one great good point, is fraught with evil. The good point is that men can do one or two things well with very little effort, having practiced them every day through generations.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Two, Discipline

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1872, Manonmani Publishers

• The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Effort, Soul, Awakening

  Dave DeLuca, Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God”, p.119, New World Library

• To be more free is the goal of all our efforts, for only in perfect freedom can there be perfection.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perfect, Goal, Perfection

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.305, Manonmani Publishers

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