108 Powerful Swami Vivekananda Quotes that will Motivate You.

Introduction:

Swami Vivekananda is a vital figure in India’s rich spiritual tradition, reasoning, and social change, significantly forming the country’s modern intellectual and cultural landscape. Conceived Narendranath Datta in a Bengali Kayastha Family on January 12, 1863, in Kolkata, he turned into a beloved symbol in Indian history.

His lessons, established in Vedanta, underlined the solidarity of religions and the holiness of each and every person. He upheld for individual strengthening through Karma Yoga (magnanimous activity), Raja Yoga (thoughtful meditation), and Bhakti Yoga (devotion). Close by his spiritualy way of thinking, Vivekananda supported social change, accepting that a country’s advancement relies on the assistance of its kin.

His commitments to Hindu way of thinking and spirituality, especially during his compelling discourse at the 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions in Chicago, acquainted these ideas with the Western world. After his guide, Shri Ramakrishna Paramahansa, died in 1886, Vivekananda established the Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission, which presently incorporates north of 220 focuses around the world. His heritage perseveres, celebrated yearly on January 12 as Public Youth Day in India, mirroring his enduring impact.

This blog presents 108 effective statements from Vivekananda, offering motivation and inspiration drawn from his wisdom and sagacious insight.

108 Powerful Swami Vivekananda Quotes:

1. “Take up one idea, and make that one idea your life. Think of it, dream of it, Live on that idea let the brain, muscles, nerves, and every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.”

2. “That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.”

3. “Take risks in your life, If you win, you can lead! If you lose, you can guide!”

4. “The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.”

5. “Meditation can turn fools into sages but unfortunately, fools never meditate.”

6. “You should work like a master and not as a slave; work incessantly, but do not do a slave’s work.”

7. “You are the creator of your own destiny.”

8. “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.”

9. “Have faith in yourself – all power is in you. Even the poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it.”

10. “The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.”

11. “Where can we go to find GOD if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.”

12. “Conquer yourself and the whole universe is yours.”

13. “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.”

14. “3 Golden rules!! Who is helping you; don’t forget them. Who is loving you; don’t hate them. Who is trusting you; don’t cheat them.”

15. “The greatest sin is to think yourself weak”

16. “Anything that makes you weak – physically, intellectually, and spiritually, reject it as poison.”

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

18. “Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.”

19. “Strength is Life, Weakness is Death. Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death. Love is Life, Hatred is Death.”

20. “Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If not, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.”

21. “Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.”

22. “The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.”

23. “He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.”

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

25. “The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.”

26. “The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain- and the whole world is at your feet.”

27. “Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbound faith and hope in yourself.”

28. “All the powers of the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.”

29. “Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.”

30. “Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die.” ― Swami Vivekananda

31. “Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, worship, psychic control, or philosophy – by one, 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.”

32. “If I Love Myself Despite My Infinite Faults, How Can I Hate Anyone At The Glimpse Of A Few Faults?”

33. “Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, and the object will follow you by itself.”

34. “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.”

35. “You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.”

36. “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.”

37. “The trouble with the nations of the West is that they are young, fickle, foolish, and wealthy.”

38. “Hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more. . . . There is infinite life before the soul. Take your time and you will achieve your end.”

39. “Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.”

40. “Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.”

41. “Where is fate, and who is fate? We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise. 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?”

42. “If there is something here that is not in the Vedas, that is your delusion. It does not exist.”

43. “Karma means law, and it applies everywhere. Everything is bound by Karma.”

44. “This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondage.”

45. “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.”

46. “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.”

47. “In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.”

48. “They alone truly live, who live for others.”

49. “You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.”

50. “All differences in this world are of degree, and not of the kind because oneness is the secret of everything.”

51. “Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.”

52. “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.”

53. “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.”

54. “The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.”

55. “When you are doing any work, Do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote your whole life to it for the time being.”

56. “If superstitions enter, the brain is gone.”

57. “Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.”

58. “Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mothers of great deeds.”

59. “All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.”

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

61. “Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.”

62. “People laugh at me because I am different; I laugh at people because they are all the same.”

63. “Be Grateful to the man you help, think of Him as God. It is not a great privilege to be allowed to worship God by helping our fellow men.”

64. “Talk to yourself at least once a Day, otherwise, you may miss a meeting with an Excellent person in this World.”

65. “Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.”

66. “Where the whole world is awake, the sage sleeps.”

67. “Serve man Serve God”

68. “Mind is not a dustbin to keep anger, hatred, and jealousy. But it is the treasure box to keep, love happiness, and sweet memories.”

69. “The rose called by any other name would smell as sweet.”

70. “He who knows that he is free; is free; he who knows that he is bound; is bound. What is the end and aim of life? None, because I know that I am the Infinite.”

71. “In hurting anyone, you hurt yourself, in loving anyone, you love yourself.”

72. “That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.”

73. “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.”

74. “Concentration of the powers of the mind is our only instrument to help us see God.”

75. “Knowledge itself is the highest reward of knowledge.”

76. “The concentrated mind is a lamp that shows us every corner of the soul.”

77. “The purer the mind, the easier it is to control it.”

78. “Truth itself is always simple. Complexity is due to man’s ignorance.”

79. “Virtue is the only friend which follows us even beyond the grave. Everything else ends with death.”

80. “Spiritual knowledge is the only thing that can destroy our miseries forever;”

81. “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.”

82. “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.”

83. “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.”

84. “If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished-mountains can be crumbled into atoms.”

85. “What the world wants is a character. The world is in need of those whose life is one of burning love, and selflessness. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.”

86. “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.”

87. “I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.”

88. “Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going to a single church or temple.”

89. “The more we grow in Love, Virtue, and Holiness, the more we see Love, Virtue, and Holiness outside.”

90. “We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”

91. “Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.”

92. “First, believe in the world that there is a meaning behind everything.”

93. “In a day, when you don’t come across any problems – you can be sure that you are traveling in the wrong path.”

94. “Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.”

95. “Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, ‘Thy will be done.’ We only dream of this bondage. Wake up and let it go.”

96. “A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to.”

97. “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.”

98. “Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.” – Swami Vivekananda

99. “Things do not grow better they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves.”

100. “The very reason for nature’s existence is for the education of the soul.”

101.  “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.”

102. “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.”

103.  “God did not give me everything that I wanted. But, He gave me everything that I needed!”

104. “This universe is the wreckage of the infinite on the shores of the finite.” – Swami Vivekananda

105. “A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.”

106. “The will is not free – it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect – but there is something behind the will which is free.”

107. “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…”

108. “Of one hundred persons who take up the spiritual life, eighty turn out to be charlatans, fifteen insane, and only five, maybe, get a glimpse of the real truth. Therefore beware.” – Swami Vivekananda

Conclusion:

I’ve compiled 108 quotes from Swami Vivekananda that can rekindle passion and clarity in people who are facing difficulties or uncertainty. His lessons offer profound experiences that uncover new implications with each perusing. If you find it useful, please consider sharing it to other people. For more satisfaction this way, explore our site and do check into my YouTube channel. Have a wonderful day!

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