“Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.”
— Swami Vivekananda
“Arise, awake, stop not until your goal is achieved.”
“Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.”
“The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.”
“In a day when you don’t come across any problems, you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.”
“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.”
“Anything that makes weak – physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.”
“In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart. ”
“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.”
“Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be; if you think yourself strong, you will be.”
“Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life. ”
“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.”
“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.”
“Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.”
“Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.”
“All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.”
“You can not believe in God until you believe in yourself.”
“The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.”
“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.”
“The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain – and the whole world is at your feet.”
“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.”
“They alone live, who live for others.”
“The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.”
“Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.”
“Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.”
“Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.”
“Don't look back – forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring,and infinite patience – then alone can great deeds be accomplished”
“The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.”
“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.”
“Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.”
“The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.”
“Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.”
“I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.”
“This universe is the wreckage of the infinite on the shores of the finite.”
“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.”
“The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.”
“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.”
“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.”
“However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite.”
“All powers are within you, you can do anything and everything.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.”
“Strength is life, Weakness is death.”
“All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.”
“Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.”
“Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!”
“The will is not free – it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect – but there is something behind the will which is free.”
“Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood.”
“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”
“Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is!”
“We are what our thoughts have made us.”
“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.”
“Strength is Life, Weakness is Death. Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death. Love is Life, Hatred is Death.”
“Service to man is service to god.”
“Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.”
“Freedom can never be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself.”
“You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains.”
“The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita.”
“My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.”
“Thoughts are living things – they travel far.”
“Purity, perseverance, and energy - these three I want.”
“Cowards never win victories. We have to fight fear and troubles and ignorance if we expect them to flee before us.”
“Music alone can take you to the Highest!”
“He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind – that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.”
“The seeker’s silence is the loudest form of prayer.”
“Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the senses and control the mind. Bear every misery without even knowing that you are miserable. Think of nothing but spiritual freedom.”
“To work with undaunted energy! What fear! Who is powerful enough to thwart you.”
“I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. I am the Pure and Blessed One. We must reject all thoughts that assert to the contrary.”
“Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin.”
“Everything will come right if you are pure and sincere. We want hundreds like you bursting upon society and bringing new life and vigor of the spirit wherever they go.”
“Be strong, my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Gita. These are bold words; but I have to say them, for I love you. I know where the shoe pinches.”
“A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.”
“Even the least work done for others awakens the power within; even thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the heart the strength of a lion.”
“Marriage and sex and money the only living devils.”
“Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.”
“Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom.”
“The more we grow in Love, Virtue and Holiness, the more we see Love, Virtue and Holiness outside.”
“One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom.”
“A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water; so a man ought to live in the world – his heart to God and his hands to work.”
“All these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided.”
“Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.”
“Above all, India is the land of religion.”
“Be proud that thou art an Indian, and proudly proclaim, “I am an Indian, every Indian is my brother.” Say, “The ignorant Indian, the poor and destitute Indian, the Brahmin Indian, the Pariah Indian, is my brother.””
“Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory.”
“Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness.”
“Say it with pride we are Hindus.”
“Never forget that a man is made great and perfect as much by his faults as by his virtues. So we must not seek to rob a nation of its character, even if it could be proved that the character was all faults.”
“This is the principle of Universal Brotherhood of man with one another, with all life down to the little ants.”
“All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else.”
“Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity.”
“It may be that I shall find it good to get outside of my body – to cast it off like a disused garment. But I shall not cease to work! I shall inspire men everywhere, until the world shall know that it is one with God.”
“See Christ, then you are a Christian; all else is talk.”
“A Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten.”
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