Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Glory

• Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord - march on, the Lord is our General. Do not look back to see who falls - forward - onward! Thus and thus we shall go on, brethren. One falls, and another takes up the work

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Life, Moving On

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1916, Manonmani Publishers

• The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first. As certain religions of the world say that a man who does not believe in a Personal God outside of himself is an atheist, so the Vedanta says, a man who does not believe in himself is an atheist. Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Atheist, Believe

  Swami Vivekananda (2017). “Vedanta: Voice of Freedom”, p.353, Vedanta Society of St. Louis

• "None is good, save One, that is, God", as the Lord Jesus bath said. The rest are only tools in His hands. "Gloria in Excelsis", "Glory unto God in the highest", and unto men that deserve, but not to such an undeserving one like me. Here "the servant is not worthy of the hire"; and a Fakir, especially, has no right to any praise whatsoever, for would you praise your servant for simply doing his duty?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Men, Hands

• Proclaim the glory of the Atman with the roar of a lion, and impart fearlessness unto all beings by saying, 'Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached'!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Goal, Lions

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

• The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals

  Swami Vivekananda

  Animal, Men, Thinking

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.32, editionNEXT.com

• The secret of Greek Art is its imitation of nature even to the minutest details; whereas the secret of Indian Art is to represent the ideal. The energy of the Greek painter is spent in perhaps painting a piece of flesh, and he is so successful that a dog is deluded into taking it to be a real bit of meat and so goes to bite it. Now, what glory is there in merely imitating nature? Why not place an actual bit of flesh before the dog?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dog, Art, Real

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2219, Manonmani Publishers

• We have lost faith in ourselves. Therefore to preach the Advaita aspect of the Vedanta is necessary to rouse up the hearts of men, to show them the glory of their souls. It is therefore that I preach this Advaita, and I do so not as a sectarian, but upon universal and widely acceptable grounds.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Heart, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1114, Manonmani Publishers

• We are the sons of Light and children of God. Glory unto the Lord, we will succeed.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Children, Son

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.120, Advaita Ashrama

• Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.6, editionNEXT.com

• My boat is nearing the calm harbour from which it is never more to be driven out. Glory, glory unto Mother! (Referring to the Divine Mother of the Universe.) I have no wish, no ambition now. Blessed be Mother! I am the servant of Ramakrishna. I am merely a machine. I know nothing else. Nor do I want to know.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Blessed, Ambition

• Moths like me die by the thousands every minute. Her work goes on all the same. Glory unto Mother!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Goes On, Glory

• Action will come. Fill yourselves with the ideal; whatever you do, think well on it. All your actions will be magnified, transformed, deified, by the very power of the thought. If matter is powerful, thought is omnipotent. Bring this thought to bear upon your life, fill yourselves with the thought of your almightiness, your majesty, and your glory.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Powerful, Thinking, Majesty

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.11, editionNEXT.com

• That which is nearest is least observed. The Atman is the nearest of the near, therefore the careless and the unsteady mind gets no clue to it. But the person who is alert, calm, self-restrained, and discriminating ignores the external world and, diving more and more into the inner world, realizes the glory of the Atman and becomes great.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Self, Mind, Atman

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