Top 500 Swami Vivekananda Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “The benefits of knowledge can only be realized in practice.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

203. “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

204. “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

205. “Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

207. “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

208. “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

209. “You may meditate on whatever you like, but I shall meditate on the heart of a lion. That gives strength.”

— Swami Vivekananda

210. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

213. “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

214. “Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

216. “Everything has a cause.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

220. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

222. “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

223. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

231. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

235. “The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is, therefore, Mukti – freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from death and misery.”

— Swami Vivekananda

236. “The greatest force is derived from the power of thought. The finer the element, the more powerful it is. The silent power of thought influences people even at a distance, because mind is one as well as many. The universe is a cobweb; minds are spiders.”

— Swami Vivekananda

237. “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

238. “Where you find the attraction for lust and wealth considerably diminished, to whatever creed he may belong, know that his inner spirit is awakening.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

240. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

243. “Have faith that you are all, my brave lads, born to do great things! Let not the barks of puppies frighten you, no, not even the thunderbolts of heaven, but stand up and work!”

— Swami Vivekananda

244. “We have wept enough. No more weeping, but stand on feet and be men.”

— Swami Vivekananda

245. “Strength, strength it is that we want so much in this life, for what we call sin and sorrow have all one cause, and that is our weakness. With weakness comes ignorance, and with ignorance comes misery.”

— Swami Vivekananda

246. “Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are shooting, your mind should be only on the target. Then you will never miss. If you are learning your lessons, think only of the lesson. In India boys and girls are taught to do this.”

— Swami Vivekananda

247. “Bullies are always cowards.”

— Swami Vivekananda

248. “We are the sons of Light and children of God. Glory unto the Lord, we will succeed.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

250. “Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. Hold fast to the real Self. Think only pure thoughts, and you will accomplish more than a regiment of mere preachers. Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.”

— Swami Vivekananda