Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Past

• We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Past, Wish

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.7, Advaita Ashrama

• The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Past, Astrology, Determined

  Dave DeLuca, Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God”, p.38, New World Library

• 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

• All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves. Therefore make your own future. "Let the dead past bury its dead." The infinite future is before you.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strength, Past, Want

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.159, Vivekananda Kendra

• We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Past, Achievement, Progress

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1118, Manonmani Publishers

• I am one of the proudest men ever born, but let me tell you frankly, it is not for myself, but on account of my ancestry. The more I have studied the past, the more I have looked back, more and more has this pride come to me, and it has given me the strength and courage of conviction, raised me up from the dust of the earth, and set me working out that great plan laid out by those great ancestors of ours.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Pride, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.266, Advaita Ashrama

• Each man has a mission in life, which is the result of all his infinite past Karma.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma, Men, Past

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.62, editionNEXT.com

• No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of human destiny.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Taken, Past, Destiny

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.46, editionNEXT.com

• The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Past, Today, Causes

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

• There cannot be a cause without an effect, the present must have had its cause in the past and will have its effect in the future.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Past, Causes, Effects

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1312, Manonmani Publishers

• You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the world not as something flashing from the hands of nature, as poets delight so much to depict, but he has the burden of an infinite past; for good or evil he comes to work out his own past deeds

  Swami Vivekananda

  Children, Past, Hands

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Essentials of Hinduism”, p.16, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

• The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Believe, Past, Doubt

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

• Let us calmly and in a manly fashion go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary frettings and fumings. I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything he really deserves. The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Fashion, Believe, Past

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

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