Top 500 Swami Vivekananda Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.”

— Swami Vivekananda

2. “Arise, awake, stop not until your goal is achieved.”

— Swami Vivekananda

3. “Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.”

— Swami Vivekananda

4. “The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.”

— Swami Vivekananda

5. “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, and 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 that is way great spiritual giants are produced.”

— Swami Vivekananda

6. “In a day when you don’t come across any problems, you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.”

— Swami Vivekananda

7. “Anything that makes weak – physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.”

— Swami Vivekananda

8. “In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart. ”

— Swami Vivekananda

9. “Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be; if you think yourself strong, you will be.”

— Swami Vivekananda

10. “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

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11. “There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.”

— Swami Vivekananda

12. “Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.”

— Swami Vivekananda

13. “Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life. ”

— Swami Vivekananda

14. “Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.”

— Swami Vivekananda

15. “Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.”

— Swami Vivekananda

16. “You can not believe in God until you believe in yourself.”

— Swami Vivekananda

17. “All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.”

— Swami Vivekananda

18. “The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.”

— Swami Vivekananda

19. “Each work has to pass through these stages: ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.”

— Swami Vivekananda

20. “The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain – and the whole world is at your feet.”

— Swami Vivekananda

21. “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

22. “They alone live, who live for others.”

— Swami Vivekananda

23. “The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.”

— Swami Vivekananda

24. “Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.”

— Swami Vivekananda

25. “Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.”

— Swami Vivekananda

26. “Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.”

— Swami Vivekananda

27. “All powers are within you, you can do anything and everything.”

— Swami Vivekananda

28. “Don't look back – forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring,and infinite patience – then alone can great deeds be accomplished”

— Swami Vivekananda

29. “The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.”

— Swami Vivekananda

30. “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

31. “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

32. “Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.”

— Swami Vivekananda

33. “Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.”

— Swami Vivekananda

34. “The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.”

— Swami Vivekananda

35. “Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.”

— Swami Vivekananda

36. “The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

38. “Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.”

— Swami Vivekananda

39. “Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.”

— Swami Vivekananda

40. “Strength is life, Weakness is death.”

— Swami Vivekananda

41. “This universe is the wreckage of the infinite on the shores of the finite.”

— Swami Vivekananda

42. “The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.”

— Swami Vivekananda

43. “We reap what we sow we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind? We make our own destiny.”

— Swami Vivekananda

44. “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 law of life, just as you breathe to live.”

— Swami Vivekananda

45. “However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite.”

— Swami Vivekananda

46. “Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.”

— Swami Vivekananda

47. “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

48. “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

49. “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

50. “All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.”

— Swami Vivekananda