Top 500 Swami Vivekananda Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that.”

— Swami Vivekananda

102. “See Christ, then you are a Christian; all else is talk.”

— Swami Vivekananda

103. “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.”

— Swami Vivekananda

104. “Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.”

— Swami Vivekananda

105. “The whole point is to discipline the mind.”

— Swami Vivekananda

106. “Be a hero. Always say, ‘I have no fear.’ Tell this to everyone – ‘Have no fear.’”

— Swami Vivekananda

107. “Have faith in yourself, all power is in you, be conscious and bring it out.”

— Swami Vivekananda

108. “The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.”

— Swami Vivekananda

109. “Purity, patience and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all love.”

— Swami Vivekananda

110. “Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.”

— Swami Vivekananda

111. “Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can. Build your hope on none.”

— Swami Vivekananda

112. “If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished – mountains can be crumbled into atoms.”

— Swami Vivekananda

113. “We have to practice to become perfect.”

— Swami Vivekananda

114. “The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.”

— Swami Vivekananda

115. “Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life.”

— Swami Vivekananda

116. “It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.”

— Swami Vivekananda

117. “Whatever you think, that you will be.”

— Swami Vivekananda

118. “My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.”

— Swami Vivekananda

119. “Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.”

— Swami Vivekananda

120. “We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.”

— Swami Vivekananda

121. “Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.”

— Swami Vivekananda

122. “The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun. When they are concentrated, they illumine.”

— Swami Vivekananda

123. “The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.”

— Swami Vivekananda

124. “One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.”

— Swami Vivekananda

125. “Christ, Buddha, and Krishna are but waves in the Ocean of Infinite Consciousness that I am!”

— Swami Vivekananda

126. “The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.”

— Swami Vivekananda

127. “Each soul is potentially divine.”

— Swami Vivekananda

128. “The fruit falls from the tree when it gets ripe. So wait for the time to come. Do not hurry. Moreover, no one has the right to make others miserable by his foolish acts. Wait, have patience, everything will come right in time.”

— Swami Vivekananda

129. “Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life in you. Even though you know you are going to be killed, fight till you “are killed.” Don’t die of fright. Die fighting. Don’t go down till you are knocked down.”

— Swami Vivekananda

130. “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

131. “The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves.”

— Swami Vivekananda

132. “Do not look back upon what has been done. Go Ahead.”

— Swami Vivekananda

133. “He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.”

— Swami Vivekananda

134. “Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.”

— Swami Vivekananda

135. “The earth is enjoyed by heroes.”

— Swami Vivekananda

136. “Music is the highest art and to those who understand, is the highest worship.”

— Swami Vivekananda

137. “Hinduism is the mother of all religions.”

— Swami Vivekananda

138. “Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.”

— Swami Vivekananda

139. “Manifest the divinity within you and everything will be harmoniously arranged around it.”

— Swami Vivekananda

140. “Never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.”

— Swami Vivekananda

141. “The Kingdom of Heaven is within us. God is within us. He is the Soul of our souls. See Him in your own soul. That is practical religion. That is freedom.”

— Swami Vivekananda

142. “Charity opens the heart.”

— Swami Vivekananda

143. “Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.”

— Swami Vivekananda

144. “What makes you weep, my friend? In you is all power. Summon up your all-powerful nature, O mighty one, and this whole universe will lie at your feet. It is the Self alone that predominates, and not matter.”

— Swami Vivekananda

145. “Give me a few men and women who are pure and selfless and I shall shake the world.”

— Swami Vivekananda

146. “Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.”

— Swami Vivekananda

147. “It is faith that makes a lion of a man.”

— Swami Vivekananda

148. “Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.”

— Swami Vivekananda

149. “Spirituality is the science of the Soul.”

— Swami Vivekananda

150. “The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control.”

— Swami Vivekananda