Top 500 Swami Vivekananda Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “We never change, we never die, and we are never born.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

404. “Space-time-causation, or name-and-form, is what is called Maya.”

— Swami Vivekananda

405. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

409. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

411. “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

412. “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

413. “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

414. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

416. “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

417. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

419. “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

420. “Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.”

— 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. “The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood – that marvellous, unselfish, all – suffering, ever – forgiving mother.”

— Swami Vivekananda

423. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

425. “Everything that has form, everything that is the result of combination, is evolved out of this Akasha.”

— Swami Vivekananda

426. “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

427. “Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth-Brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from God.”

— Swami Vivekananda

428. “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

429. “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

430. “That is the great fact which you ought to remember. We are the children of the Almighty, we are sparks of the infinite, divine fire. How can we be nothings? We are everything, ready to do everything, we can do everything, and man must do everything.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

432. “Don’t you find that in a weak physique it is difficult to control the sex – appetite or anger?”

— Swami Vivekananda

433. “Hindu Dharma is the quintessence of our national life, hold fast to it if you want your country to survive, or else you would be wiped out in three generations.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

435. “We want to lead mankind to the place where there is neither the Vedas, nor the Bible, nor the Koran; yet this has to be done by harmonizing the Vedas, the Bible, and the Koran.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

438. “If Jesus Christ was not perfect, then the religion bearing his name falls to the ground.”

— Swami Vivekananda

439. “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

440. “If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true; this I have learnt after suffering all my life; all else is mere moonshine.”

— Swami Vivekananda

441. “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

442. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

444. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Swami Vivekananda

447. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

449. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda