Top 500 Swami Vivekananda Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.”

— Swami Vivekananda

202. “There cannot be friendship without equality.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

204. “Soft-brained people, weak-minded, chicken-hearted, cannot find the truth. One has to be free, and as broad as the sky.”

— Swami Vivekananda

205. “Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

207. “I stand for truth. Truth will never ally itself with falsehood. Even if all the world should be against me, Truth must prevail in the end.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

209. “No negative, all positive, affirmative. I am, God is, everything is in me. I will manifest health, purity, knowledge, whatever I want.”

— Swami Vivekananda

210. “What we want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel. We have wept long enough. No more weeping, but stand on your feet and be men. It is man-making theories that we want. It is man-making education all round that we want.”

— Swami Vivekananda

211. “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

212. “Love is always mutual and reflective. You may hate me, and if I want to love you, you repulse me. But if I persist, in a month or a year you are bound to love me. It is a well-known psychological phenomenon.”

— Swami Vivekananda

213. “The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.”

— Swami Vivekananda

214. “Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure if you look back upon your lives you will find that you were always vainly trying to get help from others which never came.”

— Swami Vivekananda

215. “Unity in variety is the plan of the universe.”

— Swami Vivekananda

216. “He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.”

— Swami Vivekananda

217. “Experience is the only teacher we have.”

— Swami Vivekananda

218. “If superstition enters, the brain is gone.”

— Swami Vivekananda

219. “Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind; therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.”

— Swami Vivekananda

220. “As soon as we react, we become slaves. A man blames me, and I immediately react in the form of anger. A little vibration which he created made me a slave.”

— Swami Vivekananda

221. “Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our Soul. Through good deeds we can become conscious of this perfection again.”

— Swami Vivekananda

222. “Never are we nearer the Light than when the darkness is deepest.”

— Swami Vivekananda

223. “Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice.”

— Swami Vivekananda

224. “Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it.”

— Swami Vivekananda

225. “Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet.”

— Swami Vivekananda

226. “Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mother of great deeds.”

— Swami Vivekananda

227. “Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.”

— Swami Vivekananda

228. “Shri Krishna says: “Better die in your own path than attempt the path of another.””

— Swami Vivekananda

229. “Build up your health. Do not dwell in silence upon your sorrows.”

— Swami Vivekananda

230. “We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether “the wise ones praise or blame us”.”

— Swami Vivekananda

231. “Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.”

— Swami Vivekananda

232. “Let us blame none, let us blame our own Karma.”

— Swami Vivekananda

233. “The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence.”

— Swami Vivekananda

234. “Never turn back to see the result of what you have done. Give all to the Lord and go on, and think not of it.”

— Swami Vivekananda

235. “Bold words and bolder deeds are what we want. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?”

— Swami Vivekananda

236. “The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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237. “We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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238. “The mind generally takes up various objects, runs into all sorts of things. That is the lower state. There is a higher state of the mind, when it takes up one object and excludes all others.”

— Swami Vivekananda

239. “Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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240. “Meditation is a sort of prayer and prayer is meditation. The highest meditation is to think of nothing. If you can remain one moment without thought, great power will come.”

— Swami Vivekananda

241. “That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.”

— Swami Vivekananda

242. “Bullies are always cowards.”

— Swami Vivekananda

243. “Have faith in your destiny.”

— Swami Vivekananda

244. “All the powers in the universe are already ours.”

— Swami Vivekananda

245. “High achievements in art, music, etc., are the results of concentration.”

— Swami Vivekananda

246. “Practice is absolutely necessary. You may sit down and listen to me by the hour every day, but if you do not practice, you will not get one step further. It all depends on practice.”

— Swami Vivekananda

247. “Whatever others think or do, lower not your standard of purity, morality and love of God.”

— Swami Vivekananda

248. “Even our smallest attempts are not in vain. We know that nothing is lost.”

— Swami Vivekananda

249. “The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the divinity within. You can do anything. You fail only when you do not strive sufficiently to manifest infinite power. As soon as a man or a nation loses faith, death comes.”

— Swami Vivekananda

250. “Feel, my children, feel; feel for the poor, the ignorant, the downtrodden; feel till the heart stops and the brain reels and you think you will go mad; then pour the soul out at the feet of the Lord, and then will come power, help and indomitable energy.”

— Swami Vivekananda