Top 500 Swami Vivekananda Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “I want each one of my children to be a hundred times greater than I could ever be. Everyone of you must be a giant- must, that is my word. Obedience, readiness, and love for the cause- if you have these three, nothing can hold you back.”

— Swami Vivekananda

352. “If a thing happens once, it can happen again. If any human being has ever realised perfection, we too can do so. If we cannot become perfect here and now, we never can in any state or heaven or condition we may imagine.”

— Swami Vivekananda

353. “I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense.”

— Swami Vivekananda

354. “Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation.”

— Swami Vivekananda

355. “The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being.”

— Swami Vivekananda

356. “Perfection is not to be attained, it is already within us.”

— Swami Vivekananda

357. “If you have knowledge and see a man weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and help him if you can. He must grow.”

— Swami Vivekananda

358. “No two persons have the same mind or the same body.”

— Swami Vivekananda

359. “The sages are often ignorant of physical science, because they read the wrong book-the book within; and the scientists are too often ignorant of religion, because they too read the wrong book-the book outside.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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360. “Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.”

— Swami Vivekananda

361. “Man is guided by the stomach. He walks and the stomach goes first and the head afterwards. Have you not seen that? It will take ages for the head to go first.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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362. “The more opposition there is, the better. Does a river acquire velocity unless there is resistance? The newer and better a thing is, the more opposition I will meet with at the outset. It is opposition which foretells success. Where there is no opposition there is no success either.”

— Swami Vivekananda

363. “To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.”

— Swami Vivekananda

364. “As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.”

— Swami Vivekananda

365. “It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one’s own good.”

— Swami Vivekananda

366. “Man is the nearest approach to Brahman.”

— Swami Vivekananda

367. “Shri Ramakrishna used to say, “As long as I live, so long do I learn”. That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.””

— Swami Vivekananda

368. “Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste.”

— Swami Vivekananda

369. “This is the central idea of the Gita- to be calm and steadfast in all circumstances, with one’s body, mind, and soul centered at His hallowed feet!”

— Swami Vivekananda

370. “Have charity towards all beings. Pity those who are in distress. Love all creatures. Do not be jealous of anyone. Look not to the faults of others.”

— Swami Vivekananda

371. “The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.”

— Swami Vivekananda

372. “To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains.”

— Swami Vivekananda

373. “None will be able to resist truth and love and sincerity. Are you sincere? Unselfish even unto death, and loving? Then fear not, not even death.”

— Swami Vivekananda

374. “Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining, of the mind.”

— Swami Vivekananda

375. “The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. They never say “me” and “mine”; they are only blessed in being instruments.”

— Swami Vivekananda

376. “There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail.”

— Swami Vivekananda

377. “The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.”

— Swami Vivekananda

378. “Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe.”

— Swami Vivekananda

379. “External nature is only internal nature writ large.”

— Swami Vivekananda

380. “Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Ishvara.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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381. “Work hard, be steady, and have faith in the Lord. Set to work.”

— Swami Vivekananda

382. “Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.”

— Swami Vivekananda

383. “My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation. Out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem like lions.”

— Swami Vivekananda

384. “An intellectual, heartless man never becomes an inspired man. It is always the heart that speaks in the man of love; it discovers a greater instrument than intellect can give you, the instrument of inspiration.”

— Swami Vivekananda

385. “Bear in mind, my children, that only cowards and those who are weak commit sin and tell lies. The brave are always moral. Try to be moral, try to be brave, try to be sympathising.”

— Swami Vivekananda

386. “If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole.”

— Swami Vivekananda

387. “It is the Prana that is manifesting as motion.”

— Swami Vivekananda

388. “The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.”

— Swami Vivekananda

389. “As thou thinkest, so art thou.”

— Swami Vivekananda

390. “Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom-physical, mental, and spiritual-and help others to do so.”

— Swami Vivekananda

391. “Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation.”

— Swami Vivekananda

392. “Advaita is the only system that gives us complete control over ourselves, takes off all dependence and its associated superstitions, thus making us brave to suffer, brave to do, and in the long run, attain to absolute freedom.”

— Swami Vivekananda

393. “So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it.”

— Swami Vivekananda

394. “As the cause is, so the effect will be. Cause is never different from effect, the effect is but the cause reproduced in another form.”

— Swami Vivekananda

395. “According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege.”

— Swami Vivekananda

396. “The Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles.”

— Swami Vivekananda

397. “Religion in India culminates in freedom.”

— Swami Vivekananda

398. “Change is always in regard to something which does not change, or which changes relatively less.”

— Swami Vivekananda

399. “The development of man is a return to an original perfection.”

— Swami Vivekananda

400. “I pity the Hindu who does not see the beauty in Jesus Christ’s character. I pity the Christian who does not reverence the Hindu Christ.”

— Swami Vivekananda