Top 500 Swami Vivekananda Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

355. “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

356. “Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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357. “To me the thought of oneself as low and humble is a sin and ignorance.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

359. “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

360. “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

361. “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

362. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

365. “Body is the name of a series of changes.”

— Swami Vivekananda

366. “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

367. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

370. “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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371. “Know that every time you feel weak, you not only hurt yourself but also the cause. Infinite faith and strength are the only conditions of success.”

— Swami Vivekananda

372. “Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.”

— Swami Vivekananda

373. “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

374. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

376. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

378. “As thou thinkest, so art thou.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

382. “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

383. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

386. “Religion in India culminates in freedom.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

390. “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

391. “Please everyone without becoming a hypocrite or a coward.”

— Swami Vivekananda

392. “So long as even a single dog in my country is without food, my whole religion will be to feed it.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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393. “This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on.”

— Swami Vivekananda

394. “The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish.”

— Swami Vivekananda

395. “Say to your own minds, “I am He, I am He”. Let it ring day and night in your minds like a song, and at the point of death declare : “I am He”. That is truth; the infinite strength of the world is yours.”

— Swami Vivekananda

396. “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

397. “The waters of the Ganga are roaring among his matted locks.”

— Swami Vivekananda

398. “God is very merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for spiritual realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that His grace will never come.”

— Swami Vivekananda

399. “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

400. “To me an Indian is one who has got a Vedantic brain which probes deep and soars high; an Islamic body that is vibrant and valiant; a Buddhistic heart overflowing with compassion and kindness and Christian limbs of service and sacrifice.”

— Swami Vivekananda