Swami Vivekananda Motivational Quotes

• You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2375, Manonmani Publishers

• You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, God

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

• All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Eye

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Thoughts of Power”, p.3, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

• Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Truth

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2375, Manonmani Publishers

• It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Beautiful

  Swami Vivekananda (1997). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

• The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Being Strong, Stay Strong

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2375, Manonmani Publishers

• Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing ones.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Strength, Strong

  Swami Vivekananda (1935). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”

• Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Poison, Weak

  Swami Vivekananda (1904). “From Colombo to Almora: Being a Record of Swami Vivekananda's Return to India After His Mission to the West. Includes Reports of His Lectures and Replies to Addresses”

• 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.

• Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.14, editionNEXT.com

• Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness. Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Country

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2076, 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

• So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Ignorance, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.206, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

• So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Long

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.130, editionNEXT.com

• 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

• A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Heart

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

• Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Eye

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.45, editionNEXT.com

• Don't look back—forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience—then alone can great deeds be accomplished.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Energy

  Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

• Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hurt

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

• Bear in mind, my children, that only cowards and those who are weak commit sin and tell lies. The brave are always moral. Try to be moral, try to be brave, try to be sympathising.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Children, Lying

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

• Talk to yourself atleast once in a Day.. Otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Missing, Excellence

• Work unto death! I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life comes and goes; wealth, fame, enjoyments are only of a few days. It is better, far better to die on the field of duty, preaching the truth, than to die like a worldly worm. Advance!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Fields, Gone

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2087, Manonmani Publishers

• Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure if you look back upon your lives you will find that you were always vainly trying to get help from others which never came.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Trying

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.94, SkyLight Paths Publishing

• Be a hero. Always say, 'I have no fear.' Tell this to everyone - 'Have no fear.'

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hero

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, January 30, 2010.

• The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Games, Soul

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.434, Manonmani Publishers

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