Swami Vivekananda Quotes - Page 12

Grid View List View
Quote of the DayPicture QuotesTop 100 Inspirational QuotesTop 100 Love QuotesTop 100 Happiness Quotes
ChanakyaKim KardashianDeepak ChopraFriedrich NietzscheNapoleon HillWalt DisneySocratesAlfred Lord TennysonPope FrancisMarcus Tullius Cicero
GardeningWorkKarmaBirthdayPowerFearYou Are BeautifulInspirationalUpliftingEncouragement

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

He who has conquered the internal nature controls the whole universe; it becomes his servant.

If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that.

Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation.

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

Don't you find that in a weak physique it is difficult to control the sex - appetite or anger?

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

In every attempt there are many obstacles to cope with, but gradually the path becomes smooth.

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

When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing.

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

Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.

Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?

All objective pleasure in the long run must bring pain, because of the fact of change or death.

None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.

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

Change is always in regard to something which does not change, or which changes relatively less.

Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.

Say, "I can do everything ." "Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it."

Woman has suffered for eons, and that has given her infinite patience and infinite perseverance.

The world is a demon. It is a kingdom of which the puny ego is king. Put it away and stand firm.

The progress of the world through all its evils making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely.

Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it.

Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism.

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

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

It is nature that is driving us towards perfection, and eventually she will bring everyone there.

So long as even a single dog in my country is without food, my whole religion will be to feed it.

The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.

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

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

Until higher institutions have been evolved, any attempt to break the old ones will be disastrous.

This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body.

Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy.

In spirituality the Americans are very inferior to us. But their society is very superior to ours.

Each man must begin where he stands, must learn how to control the things that are nearest to him.

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

Every individual has in himself perfection. It lies within the dark recesses of his physical being.

The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.

As long as a man thinks, this struggle must go on, and so long man must have some form of religion.

Man, therefore, according to the Vedanta philosophy, is the greatest being that is in the universe.

Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember.

This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father.

All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.

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

God is present in every Jiva; there is no other God besides that. Who serves Jiva serves God indeed.

Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.

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

If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.

The earth is enjoyed by heroes”—this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.

Share This Page