Top 500 Swami Vivekananda Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “The law of attraction which holds good for the heavenly bodies also holds good for the smallest particles.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

353. “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

354. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

356. “The soul has neither sex, nor caste nor imperfection.”

— Swami Vivekananda

357. “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

358. “What do we call the river? Every moment the water is changing, the shore is changing, every moment the environment is changing, what is the river then? It is the name of this series of changes.”

— Swami Vivekananda

359. “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

360. “Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord.”

— Swami Vivekananda

361. “The Indian mythology has a theory of cycles, that all progression is in the form of waves.”

— Swami Vivekananda

362. “Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.”

— Swami Vivekananda

363. “We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will still continue to exist until man’s character changes.”

— Swami Vivekananda

364. “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

365. “We cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature engine; and indication of any error in the tiny engine leads us to imagine trouble in the huge one.”

— Swami Vivekananda

366. “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

367. “You are the makers of your own fortunes. You make yourselves suffer, you make good and evil, and it is you who put your hands before your eyes and say it is dark. Take your hands away and see the light.”

— Swami Vivekananda

368. “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

369. “Let us work without desire for name or fame or rule over others. Let us be free from the triple bonds of lust, greed of gain, and anger. And this truth is with us!”

— Swami Vivekananda

370. “Think of a space in your heart, and in the midst of that space think that a flame is burning. Think of that a flame is burning. Think of that flame as your own soul and inside the flame is another effulgent light, and that is the Soul of your soul, God. Meditate upon that in the heart.”

— Swami Vivekananda

371. “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

372. “Knowledge of the Absolute depends upon no book, nor upon anything; it is absolute in itself. No amount of study will give this knowledge; is not theory, it is realization. Cleanse the dust from the mirror, purify your own mind, and in a flash you know that you are Brahman.”

— Swami Vivekananda

373. “Have faith in yourself. You people were once the Vedic Rishis. Only, you have come in different forms, that’s all. I see it clear as daylight that you all have infinite power in you. Rouse that up; arise, arise – apply yourselves heart and soul, gird up your loins.”

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

— Swami Vivekananda

376. “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

377. “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

378. “By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands now, we make ourselves stronger; and improving our strength in this manner step by step, we may reach a state in which it shall be our privilege to do the most coveted and honored duties in life and in society.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

380. “All real progress must be slow.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

383. “Religion in India culminates in freedom.”

— Swami Vivekananda

384. “Man, therefore, according to the Vedanta philosophy, is the greatest being that is in the universe.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

386. “I am a socialist not because I think it is a perfect system, but half a loaf is better than no bread. The other system has been tried and found wanting.”

— Swami Vivekananda

387. “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

388. “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

389. “Buddha taught kindness towards lower beings; and since then there has not been a sect in India that has not taught charity to all beings, even to animals. This kindness, this mercy, this charity – greater than any doctrine – are what Buddhism left to us.”

— Swami Vivekananda

390. “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

391. “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

392. “Women will work out their destinies – much better, too, than men can ever do for them. All the mischief to women has come because men undertook to shape the destiny of women.”

— Swami Vivekananda

393. “Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

395. “Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

398. “Stand upon the Atman, then only can we truly love the world. Take a very, very high stand; knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.”

— Swami Vivekananda

399. “Infinite power of the spirit, brought to bear upon matter evolves material development, made to act upon thought evolves intellectuality, and made to act upon itself makes of man a God. First, let us be Gods, and then help other to be GOds. Be and Make. Let this be our motto.”

— Swami Vivekananda

400. “Even the minds of animals, such as dogs, lions, cats, and serpents, become charmed with music.”

— Swami Vivekananda