Top 500 Swami Vivekananda Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “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

252. “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

253. “May blessings and happiness attend every step of your progress in this world.”

— Swami Vivekananda

254. “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

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255. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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257. “If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.”

— Swami Vivekananda

258. “Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember.”

— Swami Vivekananda

259. “I am neither man nor angel. I have no sex nor limit. I am knowledge itself. I am He. I have neither anger nor hatred. I have neither pain nor pleasure. Death or birth I never had. For I am Knowledge Absolute, and Bliss Absolute. I am He, my soul, I am He!”

— Swami Vivekananda

260. “Have faith in your destiny.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

263. “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

264. “You must be fearless. It is the coward who fears and defends himself.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

266. “Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower.”

— Swami Vivekananda

267. “It is impossible to think about the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. It is impossible for a bird to fly on only one wing.”

— Swami Vivekananda

268. “The will is stronger than anything else. Everything must go down before the will, for it comes from God. A pure and strong will is omnipotent.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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269. “Motion is the sign of life.”

— Swami Vivekananda

270. “Prana is the driving power of the world, and can be seen in every manifestation of life.”

— Swami Vivekananda

271. “The chief helps in this liberation are Abhyasa and Vairagya. Vairagya is non – attachment to life, because it is the will to enjoy that brings all this bondage in its train; and Abhyasa is constant practice of any one of the Yogas.”

— Swami Vivekananda

272. “Friends or foes, they are all instruments in Her hands to help us work out our own karma, through pleasure or pain. As such, ‘Mother’ blesses all.”

— Swami Vivekananda

273. “All these disciplines are for the purification of the heart. And as soon as it is pure, all truths flash upon it in a minute; all truth in the universe will manifest in your heart, if you are sufficiently pure.”

— Swami Vivekananda

274. “He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.”

— Swami Vivekananda

275. “Meditation, you know, comes by a process of imagination. You go through all these processes of purification of the elements – making the one melt into the other, that into the next higher, that into mind, that into spirit, and then you are spirit.”

— Swami Vivekananda

276. “Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste.”

— Swami Vivekananda

277. “Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us.”

— Swami Vivekananda

278. “Never talk about the faults of others, no matter how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by that. You never help one by talking about his fault; you do him an injury, and injure yourself as well.”

— Swami Vivekananda

279. “No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion, which arouses the internal teacher, who helps us to understand things.”

— Swami Vivekananda

280. “The Absolute God of the universe, the creator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe, is impersonal principle.”

— Swami Vivekananda

281. “There is no other teacher but your own soul.”

— Swami Vivekananda

282. “No great work can be achieved by humbug. It is through love, a passion for truth, and tremendous energy, that all undertakings are accomplished.”

— Swami Vivekananda

283. “I am neither the mind, nor the intellect, nor the ego, nor the mind-stuff.”

— Swami Vivekananda

284. “The test of ahimsa is the absence of jealousy. The man whose heart never cherishes even the thought of injury to anyone, who rejoices at the prosperity of even his greatest enemy, that man is the bhakta, he is the yogi, he is the guru of all.”

— Swami Vivekananda

285. “So long as you have faith in your Guru, nothing will be able to obstruct your way.”

— Swami Vivekananda

286. “Remember the only sign of life is motion and growth.”

— Swami Vivekananda

287. “The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it.”

— Swami Vivekananda

288. “No one is to blame for our miseries but ourselves.”

— Swami Vivekananda

289. “Om is the greatest, meaning the Absolute.”

— Swami Vivekananda

290. “Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will be revolutionized.”

— Swami Vivekananda

291. “Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much.”

— Swami Vivekananda

292. “Without birth or death, eternal, ever-existing, free, unchangeable and beyond all conditions is this Soul of man – the real Self of Man – the Atman.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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293. “Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested.”

— Swami Vivekananda

294. “Turn thy gaze inward, wherein resides the Supreme Self.”

— Swami Vivekananda

295. “Now is wanted intense Karma-Yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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296. “The meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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297. “Through faithful practice, layer after layer of the mind opens before us, and each reveals new facts to us.”

— Swami Vivekananda

298. “Meditate upon the Om that is in the heart.”

— Swami Vivekananda

299. “Immediately, you will be perfect; you will become God.”

— Swami Vivekananda

300. “I hate this world, this dream, this horrible nightmare, with its churches and chicaneries, its books and blackguardisms, its fair faces and false hearts, its howling righteousness on the surface and utter hollowness beneath and, above all, its sanctified shopkeeping!”

— Swami Vivekananda

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