Top 500 Swami Vivekananda Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control.”

— Swami Vivekananda

152. “Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind.”

— Swami Vivekananda

153. “Help and not fight. Assimilation and not destruction. Harmony and Peace and not dissension.”

— Swami Vivekananda

154. “Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.”

— Swami Vivekananda

155. “All great undertakings are achieved through mighty obstacles. Keep up the deepest mental poise. Take not even the slightest notice of what puerile creatures may be saying against you.”

— Swami Vivekananda

156. “Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake, and find the ideal, the goal.”

— Swami Vivekananda

157. “Truth, purity, and unselfishness wherever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof. Equipped with these, one individual is able to face the whole universe in opposition.”

— Swami Vivekananda

158. “Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it.”

— Swami Vivekananda

159. “Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality.”

— Swami Vivekananda

160. “The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.”

— Swami Vivekananda

161. “You must keep a strict eye on your health; let everything else be subordinated to that.”

— Swami Vivekananda

162. “Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.”

— Swami Vivekananda

163. “To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion.”

— Swami Vivekananda

164. “If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word “fearlessness.””

— Swami Vivekananda

165. “We want the education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one’s own feet.”

— Swami Vivekananda

166. “Every one wants to command, and no one wants to obey; and this is owing to the absence of that wonderful brahmacharya system of yore. First, learn to obey. The command will come by itself. Always first learn to be a servant, and then you will be fit to be a master.”

— Swami Vivekananda

167. “Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.”

— Swami Vivekananda

168. “First, believe in the world-that there is meaning behind everything.”

— Swami Vivekananda

169. “Only by practice and non-attachment can we conquer mind.”

— Swami Vivekananda

170. “So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them.”

— Swami Vivekananda

171. “This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself.”

— Swami Vivekananda

172. “The greatest sin is to think that you are weak. No one is greater: realize that you are Brahman. Nothing has power except what you give it.”

— Swami Vivekananda

173. “The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.”

— Swami Vivekananda

174. “If you can think that infinite power, infinite knowledge and indomitable energy lie within you, and if you can bring out that power, you also can become like me.”

— Swami Vivekananda

175. “Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.”

— Swami Vivekananda

176. “The best guide in life is strength.”

— Swami Vivekananda

177. “In real meditation you forget the body. You may be cut to pieces and not feel it at all. You feel such pleasure in it. You become so light. This perfect rest we will get in meditation.”

— Swami Vivekananda

178. “When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.”

— Swami Vivekananda

179. “The three essentials of Hinduism are belief in God, in the Vedas as revelation, in the doctrine of Karma and transmigration.”

— Swami Vivekananda

180. “You see, no one can teach anybody. The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is teaching. Thus Vedanta says that within man is all knowledge-even in a boy it is so-and it requires only an awakening, and that much is the work of a teacher.”

— Swami Vivekananda

181. “We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.”

— Swami Vivekananda

182. “As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.”

— Swami Vivekananda

183. “Come out into the Universe of Light. Everything in the Universe is Yours, stretch out your arms and Embrace it with Love.”

— Swami Vivekananda

184. “Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.”

— Swami Vivekananda

185. “Expansion is life. Love is expansion. Love is therefore the only law of life.”

— Swami Vivekananda

186. “Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.”

— Swami Vivekananda

187. “A brave, frank, clean-hearted, courageous and aspiring youth is the only foundation on which the future nation can be built.”

— Swami Vivekananda

188. “Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the race, and the nation must go down.”

— Swami Vivekananda

189. “The organs are the horses, the mind is the rein, the intellect is the charioteer, the soul is the rider, and the body is the chariot.”

— Swami Vivekananda

190. “Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the fear in their own minds.”

— Swami Vivekananda

191. “There cannot be friendship without equality.”

— Swami Vivekananda

192. “This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.”

— Swami Vivekananda

193. “Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.”

— Swami Vivekananda

194. “Matter is motion outside, mind is motion inside.”

— Swami Vivekananda

195. “I am a Hindu, I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true.”

— Swami Vivekananda

196. “Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss.”

— Swami Vivekananda

197. “Business is business, no child’s play.”

— Swami Vivekananda

198. “The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future.”

— Swami Vivekananda

199. “Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.”

— Swami Vivekananda

200. “Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.”

— Swami Vivekananda