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Swami Vivekananda’s 150 Quotes
1. “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you,
none can make you spiritual.
There is no other teacher but your own soul.”
2. “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream
of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every
part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea
alone. This is the way to success that is way great spiritual giants
are produced.”
3. “In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.”
4. “When I Asked God for Strength
He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face
When I Asked God for Brain & Brown
He Gave Me Puzzles in Life to Solve
When I Asked God for Happiness
He Showed Me Some Unhappy People
When I Asked God for Wealth
He Showed Me How to Work Hard
When I Asked God for Favors
He Showed Me Opportunities to Work Hard
When I Asked God for Peace
He Showed Me How to Help Others
God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted
He Gave Me Everything I Needed.”
5. “In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path”
6. “Dare to be free, dare to go as far as you’re thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.”
7. “All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is
therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is
dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is law of life, just
as you breathe to live. ”
8. “Be not afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. It is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.”
9. “The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the
man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is
the most successful.”
10. “The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.”
11. “Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.”
12. “The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.”
13. “We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you
think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. ”
14. “They alone live, who live for others.”
15. “We reap what we sow we are the makers of our own fate.
The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled
catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have
their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of
the wind? We make our own destiny. ”
16. “Strength is Life, Weakness is Death.
Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death.
Love is Life, Hatred is Death.”
17. “All power is within you, you can do, anything and everything.
Believe in that do not believe that you are weak. You can do anything
and everything, without even the guidance of any one. Stand up and
express the divinity within you…, within each of you there is the power
to remove all wants and all miseries. ”
18. “Neither seeks nor avoids, take what comes.”
19. “You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.”
20. “Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.”
21. “All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.”
22. “Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.”
23. “We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about that you think.”
24. “Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.”
25. “Whatever you think that you will be.
If you think yourself weak, weak you will be;
if you think yourself strong, you will be”
26. “Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that
all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men
call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a
little book!”
27. “Man is to become divine by realizing
the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the
supports, the help of his spiritual childhood.”
28. “We
are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be,
we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the
result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we
wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we
have to know how to act.”
29. “Feel nothing, know
nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly,
'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.”
30.“Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.”
31. “This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death.
Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant
strain and misery, weakness is death.”
32. “Each soul is
potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling
nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or
psychic control, or philosophy - by one, or more, or all of these - and
be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or
rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.”
33. “Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition,
and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be
misunderstood.”
34. “The greatest sin is to think yourself weak”
35. “The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the
greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you
are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you
cannot do this and that.”
36. “Arise, awake, stop not until your goal is achieved.”
37. “Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.”
38. “If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image,
would it be right to call that a sin? Nor, even when he has passed that
stage, should he call it an error. [...] man is not traveling from error
to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him
all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism,
mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the
Infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and
association, and each of these marks a stage of progress; and every soul
is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more
strength till it reaches the Glorious Sun.”
39. “The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties.”
40. “The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves
with an intelligent brain — and the whole world is at your feet.”
41. “All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have
put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.”
42.“The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human
body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see
God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds
vanishes, and I am free.”
43.“The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.”
44. “A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.”
45. “The only religion that ought to be taught is the religion of
fearlessness. Either in this world or in the world of religion, it is
true that fear is the sure cause of degradation and sin. It is fear that
brings misery, fear that brings death, fear that breeds evil. And what
causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature.”
46. “All
knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the
infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.”
47.
“All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe
in that. Do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are
half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the
divinity within you.”
48.“All truth is eternal. Truth is
nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim
to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.”
49. “Astrology
and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind;
therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should
see a physician, take good food, and rest.”
50. “This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.”
51. “Be strong! … You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living
devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is
weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death. If it is strength, go
down into hell and get hold of it! There is salvation only for the
brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair." None but the bravest
deserves salvation.”
52. “Books are infinite in number
and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential.
Take that and try to live up to it.”
53. “Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.”
54. “Don't look back—forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm,
infinite daring, and infinite patience—then alone can great deeds be
accomplished.”
55. “Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.”
56. “Have Faith in Man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one.”
57. “If the Student thinks he is the Spirit, he will be a better
Student. If the Lawyer thinks he is the Spirit, he will be a better
Lawyer, and so on.”
58. “The Tapas and the other hard
Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed
in this Yuga is giving, helping others. ”
59. “beleive in yourself and the world will be at your feet”
60. “Shri Ramakrishna uses 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.”
61.“The Heart and core of
everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep
down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of Goodness
and Love.”
62. “Condemn none: if you can stretch out a
helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your
brothers, and let them go their own way.”
63. “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.”
64.“Our duty is to encourage everyone 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.”
65.
“The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect -
but there is something behind the will which is free.”
66. “Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.”
67. “Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.”
68. “He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old
religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The
new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in
himself.”
69. “The earth is enjoyed by heroes”—this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.”
70. “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it,
dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves,
every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every
other idea alone. This is the way to success.”
71. “After
every happiness comes misery; they may be far apart or near. The more
advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we
want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true
nature; both are chains--one iron, one gold; behind both is the Atman,
who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states
must ever change; but the nature of the Atman is bliss, peace,
unchanging. We have not to get it; we have it; only wash away the dross
and see it.”
72. “God is present in every Jiva; there is no other God besides that. Who serves Jiva serves God indeed.”
73. “Be not afraid, for all great power throughout the history of
humanity has been with the people. From out of their ranks have come all
the greatest geniuses of the world and history can only repeat itself.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work.”
74. “Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.”
75. “By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger”
76. “We are allowed to worship him. Stand in that reverent attitude to
the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment”
77. “Be Grateful to the Man you help, think of Him as God. Is it not a
great privilege to be allowed to worship God by helping our fellow men?”
78. “This universe is the wreckage of the infinite on the shores of the finite.”
79. “In a day, when you don't come across any problems, you can be sure that you are treveling in a wrong path”
80. “We must be Bright and Cheerful, long faces do not make Religion”
81. “Now is wanted intense Karma-Yoga with unbounded courage and
indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the
country be roused.”
82. “The whole universe is only the
self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes
there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more
perfect.”
83.“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. . . .”
84. “Put the good
before them, see how eagerly they take it, see how the divine that never
dies, that is always living in the human...”
85. “The Older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel”
86. “As different streams having different sources all mingle their
waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear,
crooked or straight, all lead to God.”
87. “GOD is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.”
88. “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.”
89. “Never think there is anything
impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there
is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are
weak.”
90. “The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.”
91. “When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.”
92. “Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.”
93. “All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the
microcosm which is in your power to do) and the macrocosm will adjust
itself for you.”
94. “There is no limit to the power of
the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought
to bear on one point”
95. “Take up one idea. Make that
one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the
brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea,
and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.”
96.“A tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all
along with it; and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at
times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the
Ocean of Life and Bliss.”
97. “The more we grow in Love, Virtue and Holiness, the more we see Love, Virtue and Holiness outside.”
98. “What is now wanted is a combination of the greatest heart with the
highest intellectuality, of infinite love with infinite knowledge.”
99. “Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles
in weal or woe and never adjust them to others’ “fads” through the greed
of getting supporters. Your Atman is the support of the universe—whose
support do you stand in need of?”
100. “Above all,
beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism
with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or
woe and never adjust them to others “fads” thought the greed of getting
supporters.”
101. “Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.”
102. “This World will always continue to be a mixture of Good and Evil.
Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to Love even the
wrongdoer.”
103. “All who have actually attained any real
religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different
religions are expressed. They know that the soul of all religions is
the same and so they have no quarrel with anybody just because he or she
does not speak in the same tongue.”
104. “Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet.”
105. “Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be
perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a
single church or temple.”
106. “Even the greatest fool
can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the
intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that
suits their taste.”
107. “The Land where humanity has
attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards
purity, towards calmness - it is India.”
108. “Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.”
109. “Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the
four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full
fledged devotion to God.”
110“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.”
111.“It is the Level-headed Man, the Calm Man, of Good Judgment and
cool nerves, of Great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does
good to himself.”
112. “First, believe in the world—that there is meaning behind everything”
113. “This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse
anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand
up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get
hold of yourself.”
114. “Tell the truth boldly, whether it
hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for
intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the
better.”
115. “This life is a hard fact; work your way
through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is
stronger. “
116.”This I have seen in life—those who are
overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step; those who
are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace; and those
who are always afraid of loss, always lose. “
117.“Face
the brutes.” That is a lesson for all life—face the terrible, face it
boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease
to flee before them.”
118.”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.”
119.”I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they
Really deserve.”
120.”The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what
will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all
help are you free.”
121.”Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is
hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative
thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil
spirit of fear. “
122.”Why are people so afraid? The
answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on
others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want
a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us. “
123.”As long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different
from God, fear remains with us; but when we know ourselves to be the
One, fear goes; of what can we be afraid?”
124.”There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion—I am God—cannot be made with regard to the sense-world.”
125.”All that is real in me is God; all that is real in God is I. The
gulf between God and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing God, we find
that the kingdom of heaven is within us. “
126.”First get rid of the delusion “I am the body”, and then only will we want real knowledge.”
127.”What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those
whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word
tell like a thunderbolt.”
128. “God is merciful to those whom
He sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle,
without any struggle, and you will see that His grace will never come.”
129. “We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We
are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do
is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed?”
130. “Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day
and night before you, and out of that will come great work.”
131. “Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
132. “We must have friendship for all; we must be merciful toward those
that are in misery; when people are happy, we ought to be happy; and to
the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind
peaceful.”
133. “Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.”
134. “Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.”
135. “Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. …
Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.”
136. “Those who grumble at the little thing that has fallen to their lot
to do will grumble at everything. Always grumbling they will lead a
miserable life…. But those who do their duty putting their shoulder to
the wheel will see the light, and higher and higher duties will fall to
their share.”
137. “Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.”
138. “Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the
things that will tell you the real character of a great person.”
139. “Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.”
140. “We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed. We came to rule; we are
being ruled. We came to work; we are being worked. All the time, we find
that. And this comes into every detail of our life.”
141. “We
are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You
are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith
enough and you will be free in a minute.”
142. “Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe.”
143. “Stand upon the Self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a
very high stand; knowing our universal nature, we must look with
perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.”
144."I
am the thread that runs through all these pearls," and each pearl is a
religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and God
is the thread that runs through all of them; most people, however, are
entirely unconscious of it.”
145. “Stand up, be bold, be
strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know
that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and
succor you want is within your selves. Therefore, make your own future.”
146. “It is the patient building of character, the
intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the
future of humanity.”
147. “If there is one word that you find
coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell
upon masses of ignorance, it is the word “fearlessness.””
148.
“The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock,
how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow
come through concentration.”
149. “Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.”
150. “The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned
back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the
penetrating rays of the sun, so will the concentrated mind penetrate
its own innermost secrets.”
Well their are many things whic he has preached...Just collected some of the stuff here...
I need some good pictures of swami Vivekananda to be posted in here for further studies of me and so it could help me in research...