Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Goals

• The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Goal, Soul

  Swami Vivekananda (1993). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

• 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.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.141, Vivekananda Kendra

• Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Goal, Levels

• Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy - by one, or more, or all of these - and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Philosophy, Book, Psychics

  Swami Vivekananda (2012). “Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)”, p.120, Jazzybee Verlag

• If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Freedom, Thinking, Goal

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.878, Manonmani Publishers

• Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake, and find the ideal, the goal.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Goal, Despair, Razors

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.45, editionNEXT.com

• Evil company is always to be shunned; because it leads to lust and anger, illusion, forgetfulness of the goal, destruction of the will (lack of perseverance), and destruction of everything. (Narada Bhakti Sutra)

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perseverance, Anger, Evil

• If you can get absolutely still for just one moment, you have reached the goal.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Goal, Moments, Stills

  Swami Vivekananda (1951). “Complete Works”

• Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

• Advance like a hero. Do not be thwarted by anything. How many days will this body last, with its happiness and misery? When you have the human body, then rouse the Atman within and say-I have reached the state of fearlessness!...and then as long as the body endures, speak unto others this message of fearlessness: 'Thou art That', 'Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached'

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Art, Hero

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

• To succeed, you must have tremendous perserverance... tremendous will. "I will drink the ocean", says the perservering soul; at my will mountains will crumble. Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

• Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the world. It is fear that is the greatest of all superstitions. It is fear that is the cause of all our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment. Therefore, "arise, awake and stop not until the goal is reached.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Faith, Goal

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1228, Manonmani Publishers

• Say - i am the Atman in which my lower ego has become merged for ever. Be perfect in this idea; and then as long as the body endures, speak unto others this message of fearlessness: "Thou art That", "Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached!"

  Swami Vivekananda

  Art, Ideas, Long

  Swami Vivekananda (1976). “Awakened India”

• 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”

• Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Marriage, Ignorance, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.107, Vivekananda Kendra

• To see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Power, Goal

• This is the only way to reach the goal, to tell ourselves, and to tell everybody else, that we are divine. And as we go on repeating this, strength comes. He who falters at first will get stronger and stronger, and the voice will increase in volume until the truth takes possession of our hearts, and courses through our veins, and permeates our bodies.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strength, Heart, Voice

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.650, Manonmani Publishers

• God is the one goal of all our passions and emotions. If you want to be angry, be angry with Him. Chide your Beloved, chide your Friend. Whom else can you safely chide? Mortal man will not patiently put up with your anger; there will be a reaction. If you are angry with me I am sure quickly to react, because I cannot patiently put up with your anger. Say unto the Beloved, "Why do You not come to me; why do You leave me thus alone?" Where is there any enjoyment but in Him? What enjoyment can there be in little clods of earth?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Passion, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (1962). “What Religion is: In the Words of Swami Vivekananda”

• Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon as they have learnt and are ready to abide by the eternal lesson - that we are bound to bear and forbear and that life to every one must be a compromise.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Marriage, Ninety Nine, Race

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

• Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What man can enjoy a meal with more gusto than the dog or the cat ? Go to a menagerie and see the [wild animals] tearing the flesh from the bone. Go back and become a bird! . . . What a mistake then to become a man! Vain have been my years - hundreds of years - of struggle only to become the man of sense-enjoyments.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dog, Mistake, Struggle

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1642, Manonmani Publishers

• 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

• Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness comes to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure is the goal. The cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that men foolishly think pleasure to be the ideal to strive for. After a time man finds that it is not happiness, but knowledge, towards which he is going, and that both pleasure and pain are great teachers.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Teacher, Pain, Mistake

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.4, Advaita Ashrama

• By work alone, men may get to where Buddha got largely by meditation or Christ by prayer. Buddha was a working Jnani, Christ was a Bhakta, but the same goal was reached by both of them. Good motives, sincerity, and infinite love can conquer the world. One single soul possessed of these virtues can destroy the dark designs of millions of hypocrites and brutes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Prayer, Hypocrite, Dark

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