Top 500 Swami Vivekananda Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “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

402. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

405. “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

406. “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

407. “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

408. “We never change, we never die, and we are never born.”

— Swami Vivekananda

409. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

411. “Purusha is the; great attraction of the universe; though untouched by and unconnected with the universe, yet it attracts the whole; universe.”

— Swami Vivekananda

412. “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

413. “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

414. “TO worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows no reward. Give your love unto to God, but do not ask anything in return even from Him through pray.”

— Swami Vivekananda

415. “If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

417. “Pay no attention whatsoever to newspaper nonsense or criticism. Be sincere and do your duty. Everything will come all right. Truth must triumph.”

— Swami Vivekananda

418. “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

419. “Pay particular attention to your health, but too much coddling of the body will, on the contrary, also spoil the health.”

— Swami Vivekananda

420. “No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual.”

— Swami Vivekananda

421. “Do you think these sannyasi children of Sri Ramakrishna are born to simply to sit under trees lighting dhuni-fires? Whenever any of them will take up some work, people will be astonished to see their energy. Learn from them how to work.”

— Swami Vivekananda

422. “Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.”

— Swami Vivekananda

423. “It is the duty of all to support and side with Dharma. All must fight and support Dharma regardless of their personality, background, status.”

— Swami Vivekananda

424. “The one theme of the Vedanta philosophy is the search after unity. The Hindu mind does not care for the particular; it is always after the general, nay, the universal. “what is it that by knowing which everything else is to be known.” That is the one search.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

426. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

428. “Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.”

— Swami Vivekananda

429. “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

430. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

432. “Religion, in India, means realisation and nothing short of that.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

434. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

436. “The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself – this is called life.”

— Swami Vivekananda

437. “Siva, O Siva, carry my boat to the other shore!”

— Swami Vivekananda

438. “Have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them.”

— Swami Vivekananda

439. “Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment.”

— Swami Vivekananda

440. “If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.”

— Swami Vivekananda

441. “No better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written.”

— Swami Vivekananda

442. “The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on economical principles. The value of matter depends solely on its capacities of expressing ideas.”

— Swami Vivekananda

443. “Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism.”

— Swami Vivekananda

444. “The Impersonal God seen through the mists of sense is personal.”

— Swami Vivekananda

445. “We have lost faith in ourselves. Therefore to preach the Advaita aspect of the Vedanta is necessary to rouse up the hearts of men, to show them the glory of their souls. It is therefore that I preach this Advaita, and I do so not as a sectarian, but upon universal and widely acceptable grounds.”

— Swami Vivekananda

446. “Every attempt to solve the laws of causation, time, and space would be futile, because the very attempt would have to be made by taking for granted the existence of these three.”

— Swami Vivekananda

447. “Cut the bondage of all worldly affections; go beyond laziness and all care as to what becomes of you.”

— Swami Vivekananda

448. “Body is an unreal dream, and we think we are all bodies.”

— Swami Vivekananda

449. “Nature grinds all of us. Keep count of the ounce of pleasure you get. In the long run, nature did her work through you, and when you die your body will make other plants grow. Yet we think all the time that we are getting pleasure ourselves. Thus the wheel goes round.”

— Swami Vivekananda

450. “Principles must conquer in the long run, for that is the manhood of man.”

— Swami Vivekananda