Top 500 Swami Vivekananda Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

253. “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

254. “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

255. “It is the highest manifestation of the power of Vairagya when it takes away even our attraction towards the qualities.”

— Swami Vivekananda

256. “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

257. “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

258. “Motion is the sign of life.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

260. “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’ bless all.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

262. “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

263. “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

264. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

268. “Have faith in your destiny.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

271. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

274. “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

275. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

277. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

280. “Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction.”

— Swami Vivekananda

281. “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

282. “This, I have seen in life – those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step. Those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace; and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.”

— Swami Vivekananda

283. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

285. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

287. “It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

289. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

291. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

294. “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

295. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

298. “Immediately you will be perfect, you will become God.”

— Swami Vivekananda

299. “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

300. “Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die.”

— Swami Vivekananda