Swami Vivekananda Inspiring Quotes

• 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.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Brother

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta”, p.9, Advaita Ashrama

• 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

• This, I have seen in life - those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step. Those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace; and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

• All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Love, Inspiring, Selfish

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Thoughts of Power”, p.9, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Have Faith, Being True

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.438, Manonmani Publishers

• 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

• 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.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Successful

• They alone live, who live for others.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Live For Others

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.338, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

• 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.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Sitting, Body

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.91, SkyLight Paths Publishing

• If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word "fearlessness."

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Ignorance, Bombshells

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Meditation and Its Methods”, p.52, editionNEXT.com

• First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Believe

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

• Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Book, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.53, Advaita Ashrama

• This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Lessons

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.480, Manonmani Publishers

• We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Details, Enjoy

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.475, Manonmani Publishers

• All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta”, p.49, Advaita Ashrama

• Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

• The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Karma, Past

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2374, Manonmani Publishers

• Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Rocks, Self

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

• "Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable".

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Practice

  "The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda".

• Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3821, Manonmani Publishers

• The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain — and the whole world is at your feet.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Intelligent, Iron

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3031, Manonmani Publishers

• The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Land, Generosity

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.11, Vivekananda Kendra

• I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Inspiring, Believe

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.202, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

• Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Swami Vivekananda (1951). “Complete Works”

• Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth-Brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from God.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Inspiring, Heart

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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