Swami Vivekananda Quotes



        “Strength is Life, Weakness is Death, Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death, Love is Life, Hatred is Death.” 
- Swami Vivekananda

       “Arise, awake, stop not until your goal is achieved.” 
- Swami Vivekananda

       “Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.” 
- Swami Vivekananda

        “They alone live, who live for others.” 
- Swami Vivekananda

        “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.” 
- Swami Vivekananda

        “In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path” 
- Swami Vivekananda

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

        “In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart. ” 
- Swami Vivekananda

        “Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life. ” 
- Swami Vivekananda

        “Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvellous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.” 
- Swami Vivekananda

       “You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.” 
- Swami Vivekananda

       “Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.” 
- Swami Vivekananda

        “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.” 
- Swami Vivekananda

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

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

       “Shri Ramakrishna use 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.” 
- Swami Vivekananda

       “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.” 
- Swami Vivekananda

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

        “Take Risks in Your Life If u Win, U Can Lead! If u Lose, U Can Guide!” 
- Swami Vivekananda


       “Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.” 
- Swami Vivekananda

        “This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.” 
- Swami Vivekananda

        “Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.” 
- Swami Vivekananda

        “God did not give me everything that i wanted. But, He gave me everything that i needed!” 
- Swami Vivekananda

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

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

        “believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet” 
- Swami Vivekananda

       “God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted, He Gave Me Everything I Needed.” 
- Swami Vivekananda

        “The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.” 
- Swami Vivekananda

       “GOD is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.” 
- Swami Vivekananda

       “The very reason for nature's existence is for the education of the soul.” 
- Swami Vivekananda

        “Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet.” 
- Swami Vivekananda

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

        “There will never be a time when we shall not exist.” 
- Swami Vivekananda

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

        “He works for work’s sake. “Work for work’s sake. Worship for worship’s sake.” 
- Swami Vivekananda

        “Do good because it is good to do good. Ask no more.” 
- Swami Vivekananda

       “If a person who can [give a blow] forbears, there is merit in that.” 
- Swami Vivekananda

       “As such he cannot experience the nature of the soul.” 
- Swami Vivekananda,

       “When he has become perfectly satisfied, he has no more cravings” 
- Swami Vivekananda