Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Progress

• The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Progress, Treatment, Thermometers

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

• All manifest life seems to require a period of sleep, of calm, in which to gain added strength, renewed vigour, for the next manifestation, or awakening to activity. Thus is the march of all progress, of all manifest life - in waves, successive waves, [of] activity and repose. Waves succeed each other in an endless chain of progression.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sleep, Progress, Awakening

• It is the duty of every person to contribute in the development and progress of India.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Progress, India, Development

• Look not back. No, not even if you see the dearest and nearest cry. Look not back, but forward. We cannot stop. If we stop we die. We have either to go forward or to go backward. We have either to progress or to degenerate.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Life, Progress

• Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Progress, Path, Suits

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.167, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

• True progress is slow but sure.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Progress

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2035, Manonmani Publishers

• It is the nature of the brute to remain where he is (not to progress); it is the nature of man to seek good and avoid evil; it is the nature of God to seek neither, but just to be eternally blissful. Let us be God!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Evil, Progress

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Selections from Swami Vivekananda”

• One atom in this universe cannot move without dragging the whole world along with it. There cannot be any progress without the whole world following in the wake, and it is becoming every day dearer that the solution of any problem can never be attained on racial, or national, or narrow grounds.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Moving, Progress, Atoms

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1182, Manonmani Publishers

• There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political institutions being only the development of the Grecian; in the latter the Hindus are everything.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Two, Political

  Swami Vivekananda (2003). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

• Chemistry ceases to improve when one element is found from which all others are deductible. Physics ceases to progress when one force is found of which all others are manifestations. So religion ceases to progress when unity is reached, which is the case with Hinduism.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Unity, Progress, Elements

• The fault with all religions like Christianity is that they have one set of rules for all. But Hindu religion is suited to all grades of religious aspiration and progress. It contains all the ideals in their perfect form. For example, the ideal of Shanta or blessedness is to be found in Vasishtha; that of love in Krishna; that of duty in Rama and Sita; and that of intellect in Shukadeva. Study the characters of these and of other ideal men. Adopt one which suits you best.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Character, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2614, Manonmani Publishers

• According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Progress, Humans, Human Progress

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2250, Manonmani Publishers

• Just as the body has its progress and decadence, so also has the mind, and, therefore, the mind is not the soul, because the soul can neither decay nor degenerate.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Soul, Mind, Progress

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.102, editionNEXT.com

• We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth

  Swami Vivekananda

  Errors, Progress

• All progression is in the relative world.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Progress, World, Progression

  Swami Vivekananda (1921). “Vedanta Philosophy: Inspired Talks, Recorded by a Disciple During the Seven Weeks at Thousand Island Park”

• Language is the chief means and index of a nation's progress.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mean, Progress, Language

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2681, Manonmani Publishers

• The Indian mythology has a theory of cycles, that all progression is in the form of waves.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Progress, Wave, Form

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.14, editionNEXT.com

• 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

• All real progress must be slow.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Progress

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2155, Manonmani Publishers

• May blessings and happiness attend every step of your progress in this world.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Blessing, Progress, World

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3387, Manonmani Publishers

• The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mean, Race, Progress

  Swami Vivekananda (2014). “Raja Yoga”, p.11, Lulu Press, Inc

• We know there is no progress in a straight line.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Progress, Lines, Knows

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.379, Manonmani Publishers

• Do you think there is any other means of achieving progress except through Rajas?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mean, Thinking, Progress

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

• None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Perfect, Progress

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.7, editionNEXT.com

• The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mean, Progress, World

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2921, Manonmani Publishers

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