Swami Vivekananda Quotes

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

“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. This is the way to success.”

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

“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.”

“Strength is life, weakness is death.”

“The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.”

“Each soul is potentially divine.”

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

“The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself.”

“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.”

“Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man.”

“Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.”

“Sisters and Brothers of America.”

“I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance.”

“Sectarianism, bigotry, and its horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful earth.”

“Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so.”

“Be a hero. Always say, "I have no fear."

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

“They alone live who live for others; the rest are more dead than alive.”

“So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them.”

“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.”

“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.”

“We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet.”

“The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.”

“Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures.”