Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Morality

• Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You must have strict morality.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Patience, Perseverance, Morality

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3373, Manonmani Publishers

• Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all true morality.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Passion, Balance

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.162, Vivekananda Kendra

• Whatever others think or do, lower not your standard of purity, morality and love of God.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Thinking, And Love, Morality

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.203, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

• Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, and above all, the ideal king, this Rama has been presented before us by the great sage Valmiki. No language can be purer, none chaster, none more beautiful, and at the same time simpler, than the language in which the great poet has depicted the life of Rama.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Beautiful, Kings, Husband

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1169, Manonmani Publishers

• We must recognise that duty and morality vary under different circumstances; not that the man who resists evil is doing what is always and in itself wrong, but that in the different circumstances in which he is placed it may become even his duty to resist evil.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Evil, Different

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.11, Advaita Ashrama

• Change is always subjective. All through evolution you find that the conquest of nature comes by change in the subject. Apply this to religion and morality, and you will find that the conquest of evil comes by the change in the subjective alone. That is how the Advaitic system gets its whole force, on the subjective side of man.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Evil, Sides

• There is to be found in every religion the manifestation of the struggle toward freedom. It is the groundwork of all morality, of unselfishness, which means getting rid of the idea that human beings are the same as this little body.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Struggle, Mean, Ideas

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

• Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .

  Swami Vivekananda

  Struggle, Perfection, Morality

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3150, Manonmani Publishers

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