The Best Swami Vivekananda quotes

To be good and to do good–that is the whole of religion. — Swami Vivekananda

Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be. — Swami Vivekananda

Doing good to others is the one great universal religion. — Swami Vivekananda

Religion, in India, means realisation and nothing short of that. — Swami Vivekananda

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves. — Swami Vivekananda

First of all, our young must be strong. Religion will come afterwards. — Swami Vivekananda

Religion in India culminates in freedom. — Swami Vivekananda

Avoid all mystery. There is no mystery in religion. — Swami Vivekananda

Each nation has a theme: everything else is secondary. India’s theme is religion. — Swami Vivekananda

Infinite strength is religion and God. — Swami Vivekananda

Our religion teaches that anger is a great sin, even if it is ‘righteous’. — Swami Vivekananda

Religion in India must be made as free and as easy of access as is God’s air. — Swami Vivekananda

Religion is the one and sole interest of the people of India. — Swami Vivekananda

All the superior religions had their growth between the Ganga and the Euphrates. — Swami Vivekananda

The idol is the expression of religion. — Swami Vivekananda

Religion lies in being and becoming, in realization. — Swami Vivekananda

By the study of different RELIGIONS we find that in essence they are one. — Swami Vivekananda

Above all, India is the land of religion. — Swami Vivekananda

Science and religion will meet and shake hands. — Swami Vivekananda

All forms are transitory, that is why all religions say, ‘God has no form’. — Swami Vivekananda

There is no other teacher but your own soul. — Swami Vivekananda

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. . — Swami Vivekananda

Each soul is potentially divine. — Swami Vivekananda

Spirituality is the science of the Soul. — Swami Vivekananda

Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else. — Swami Vivekananda

The soul has neither sex, nor caste nor imperfection. — Swami Vivekananda

The body cannot be the soul. — Swami Vivekananda

Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky–the Lord. — Swami Vivekananda

The very reason for nature’s existence is for the education of the soul. — Swami Vivekananda

In this body, He resides, the Lord of souls and the King of kings. — Swami Vivekananda

There is no salvation for man until he sees God, realises his own soul. — Swami Vivekananda

Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism. — Swami Vivekananda

Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit. — Swami Vivekananda

Stand alone! See the glory of your own soul, and see that you will have to work. — Swami Vivekananda

The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game. — Swami Vivekananda

Everything that is excellent will come when this sleeping soul is aroused to self–conscious activity. — Swami Vivekananda

The Indian idea is that the soul is formless. Whatever is form must break some time or other. — Swami Vivekananda

It is nature that is changing, not the soul of man. This never changes. — Swami Vivekananda

Bodies come and go, but the soul does not change. — Swami Vivekananda

We are all born cowards. — Swami Vivekananda

Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can, build your hope on none. — Swami Vivekananda

For one thing we may be grateful: this life is not eternal. — Swami Vivekananda

God is to be worshiped as the one Beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life. — Swami Vivekananda

Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life. — Swami Vivekananda

Life in this world is an attempt to see God. — Swami Vivekananda

This is the great fact: strength is life. — Swami Vivekananda

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all. — Swami Vivekananda

Strength is life, Weakness is death. — Swami Vivekananda

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. — Swami Vivekananda

Each man has a mission in life, which is the result of all his infinite past Karma. — Swami Vivekananda

The Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles. — Swami Vivekananda

The best principles in our lives were those which we heard from our mothers through our ears. — Swami Vivekananda

Take risks in your life. If you win, you can lead, if you lose, you can guide. — Swami Vivekananda

This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like–the so–called good–is nothing but an illusion. — Swami Vivekananda

The sign of life is strength and growth. — Swami Vivekananda

We have seen that our vigour, our strength, nay, our national life is in our religion. — Swami Vivekananda

Motion is the sign of life. — Swami Vivekananda

When I asked God for Brains and Brawn, He gave me Puzzles in life to Solve. — Swami Vivekananda

Remember the only sign of life is motion and growth. — Swami Vivekananda

In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life. — Swami Vivekananda

We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom. — Swami Vivekananda

Renunciation is of the mind. — Swami Vivekananda

The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties. — Swami Vivekananda

The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind. — Swami Vivekananda

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state. — Swami Vivekananda

Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else. — Swami Vivekananda

If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame. — Swami Vivekananda

If the Absolute becomes limited by the mind, It is no more Absolute; It has become finite. — Swami Vivekananda

If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished–mountains can be crumbled into atom. — Swami Vivekananda

The Indian mind is first religious, then anything else. So this is to be strengthened. — Swami Vivekananda

To believe that mind is all, that thought is all is only a higher materialism. — Swami Vivekananda

My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt. — Swami Vivekananda

Only by practice and non–attachment can we conquer mind. — Swami Vivekananda

Matter is motion outside, mind is motion inside. — Swami Vivekananda

Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres. — Swami Vivekananda

The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control. — Swami Vivekananda

Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind. — Swami Vivekananda

Religion is the peculiarity of the growth of the Indian mind. — Swami Vivekananda

Through faithful practice, layer after layer of the mind opens before us, and each reveals new facts to us. — Swami Vivekananda

Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have. — Swami Vivekananda

Even the minds of animals, such as dogs, lions, cats, and serpents, become charmed with music. — Swami Vivekananda

The whole point is to discipline the mind. — Swami Vivekananda

Love for yourselves means [in the end] love for everything. — Swami Vivekananda

The more we grow in Love, Virtue and Holiness, the more we see Love, Virtue and Holiness outside. — Swami Vivekananda

Self–love is the first teacher of self–renunciation. — Swami Vivekananda

Nothing else is necessary but these–love, sincerity, and patience. — Swami Vivekananda

Highest love for God can never be achieved without renunciation. — Swami Vivekananda

The Bhakta (devotee) renounces all little loves for the almighty and omnipresent love. — Swami Vivekananda

Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all, love. — Swami Vivekananda

You have no more anger when you are all love, bliss, infinite existence. . . . — Swami Vivekananda

If I love myself despite my infinite faults, how can I hate anyone at the glimpse of a few faults. — Swami Vivekananda

This perfection must come through the practice of holiness and love. — Swami Vivekananda

Whatever others think or do, lower not your standard of purity, morality and love of God. — Swami Vivekananda

Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss. — Swami Vivekananda

Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness. — Swami Vivekananda

Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death. — Swami Vivekananda

May the shadow of the Almighty ever rest on all those you love. — Swami Vivekananda

Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else. — Swami Vivekananda

Real love is love for love’s sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation. — Swami Vivekananda

Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another. — Swami Vivekananda

You know, I may have to be born again, you see, I have fallen in love with mankind. — Swami Vivekananda

Expansion is life. Love is expansion. Love is therefore the only law of life. — Swami Vivekananda

Man is the apex of the only world we can ever know. — Swami Vivekananda

In the world take always the position of the giver. — Swami Vivekananda

The world sympathizes only with strong and powerful. — Swami Vivekananda

This world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. — Swami Vivekananda

This world is not for cowards. — Swami Vivekananda

Let us not depend upon the world for pleasure. — Swami Vivekananda

First, believe in the world–that there is meaning behind everything. — Swami Vivekananda

Man is the highest being that exists, and this is the greatest world. — Swami Vivekananda

On this basic–being right and doing right the whole world can unite. — Swami Vivekananda

All progression is in the relative world. — Swami Vivekananda

Where the whole world is awake, the sage sleeps. — Swami Vivekananda

The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too. — Swami Vivekananda

Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet. — Swami Vivekananda

The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world. — Swami Vivekananda

It is fear that is the greatest cause of misery in the world. — Swami Vivekananda

This is no world. It is God Himself. In delusion we call it world. — Swami Vivekananda

The world cares little for principles. They care for persons. — Swami Vivekananda

What is this universe but name and form? — Swami Vivekananda

Each man is divine. Each man that you see is a God by his very nature. — Swami Vivekananda

Moths like me die by the thousands every minute. Her work goes on all the same. Glory unto Mother! — Swami Vivekananda

All the work you do, is done for your own salvation, is done for your own benefit. — Swami Vivekananda

Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment. — Swami Vivekananda

Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work–this is the only way. — Swami Vivekananda

Perfection can never be attained by work. — Swami Vivekananda

The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much. — Swami Vivekananda

Wait, my child, wait and work on. Patience, patience. . . . . — Swami Vivekananda

To work with undaunted energy! What fear! Who is powerful enough to thwart you. — Swami Vivekananda

No effect of work can be eternal. — Swami Vivekananda

Work hard, be steady, and have faith in the Lord. Set to work. — Swami Vivekananda

The real work is in the practice. — Swami Vivekananda

Even the least work done for others awakens the power within. — Swami Vivekananda

It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well–balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work. — Swami Vivekananda

Good works are continually being undone by the tons of hatred and anger which are being poured out on the world. — Swami Vivekananda

Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self. — Swami Vivekananda

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion. — Swami Vivekananda

All motion, either in the body or anywhere else, is the work of this Prana. — Swami Vivekananda

We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether ‘the wise ones praise or blame us’. — Swami Vivekananda

Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower. — Swami Vivekananda

Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name–making, you must always remember. — Swami Vivekananda

What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin. — Swami Vivekananda

The power of purity–it is a definite power. — Swami Vivekananda

The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear. — Swami Vivekananda

All the powers in the universe are already ours. — Swami Vivekananda

This is the one great idea to understand that our power is already ours, our salvation is already within us. — Swami Vivekananda

What power is higher than the power of purity? — Swami Vivekananda

To see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal. — Swami Vivekananda

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. — Swami Vivekananda

There is no end to the power a man can obtain. — Swami Vivekananda

Never say NO, Never say, ‘I cannot’, for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything. — Swami Vivekananda

Out of purity and silence comes the word of power. — Swami Vivekananda

Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe. — Swami Vivekananda

Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality. — Swami Vivekananda

Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves. — Swami Vivekananda

It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm. — Swami Vivekananda

Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only. — Swami Vivekananda

All want power, but few will wait to gain it for themselves. — Swami Vivekananda

All power is His and within His command. — Swami Vivekananda

Accumulation of power is as necessary as its diffusion, or rather more so. — Swami Vivekananda

The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine. — Swami Vivekananda

Through the grace of the Almighty Power, it is sure to manifest itself in time. — Swami Vivekananda

If one has got power, one must manifest it in action. — Swami Vivekananda