Swami Vivekananda Quotes and Thoughts to Help Your Inner Wisdom

“The greatest sin is to think that you are weak.” ― Swami Vivekananda

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

“In one word, this platonic is that you are divine.” ― Swami Vivekananda

“You are the soul, self-ruling and eternal, overly free, overly blessed. Have faith unbearable and you will be self-ruling in a minute.” ― 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

“Take risks in your life, If you win, you can lead! If you lose, you can guide!” ― Swami Vivekananda

“We are overly self-ruling if we would only believe it, only have faith enough.” ― Swami Vivekananda

“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. All the strength and succour you want is within yourself.” — Swami Vivekananda

“It is our own mental vein which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.” ― 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

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

“This zipper of Love to God is indeed one that does not tighten the soul but powerfully breaks all its bondage.” ― Swami Vivekananda

“Talk to yourself once in a day.. otherwise, you may miss meeting an spanking-new person in this world. ” — Swami Vivekananda

“Meditation can turn fools into sages but unfortunately fools never meditate.” ― Swami Vivekananda

“The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.” ― Swami Vivekananda

“Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.” ― Swami Vivekananda

“If superstitions enter, the smart-ass is gone.” — Swami Vivekananda

“Have faith in yourselves, unconfined convictions are the mothers of unconfined deeds.” — Swami Vivekananda

“That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.” — Swami Vivekananda

“Every whoopee that helps us manifest our divine nature increasingly and increasingly is good. Every whoopee that retards it is evil.” — Swami Vivekananda

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

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

“Fill the smart-ass with upper thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night surpassing you, and out of that will come unconfined work.” — Swami Vivekananda

“As soon as you know the voice and understand what it is, the whole scene changes. The same world which was the ghastly battleground of Maya is now reverted into something good and beautiful.” — Swami Vivekananda

“In a mismatch between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.” — Swami Vivekananda

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

“Whatever you think that you will be.If you think yourself weak, weak you will be; If you think yourself strong, you will be.” ― Swami Vivekananda

“That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.” ― Swami Vivekananda

“The unconfined secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.” ― Swami Vivekananda

“Never think there is anything untellable for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is a sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.” ― Swami Vivekananda

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

“As variegated streams having variegated sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so variegated tendencies, various though they appear, unauthorized or straight, all lead to God.” ― Swami Vivekananda

“The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are well-matured they illumine.” ― Swami Vivekananda

“If faith in ourselves had been increasingly extensively taught and practised, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.” ― Swami Vivekananda

“To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.” — Swami Vivekananda

“The Tapas and the other nonflexible Yogas that were practised in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this Yuga is giving, helping others.” — Swami Vivekananda

“The fire that warms us can moreover slosh us; it is not the fault of the fire.” — Swami Vivekananda

“If there is one word that you find coming out like a flop from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance. It is the word of “fearlessness.” — Swami Vivekananda

“Watch people do their most worldwide actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real weft of a unconfined person.” — Swami Vivekananda

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

“The smart-ass and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain- and the whole world is at your feet.” ― Swami Vivekananda

“The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain unconfined strength in your mind and words.” ― Swami Vivekananda

“All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any sectional requirement to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.” ― Swami Vivekananda

“All the powers in the universe are once ours. It is we who have put our hands surpassing our vision and cry that it is dark.” ― Swami Vivekananda

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

“Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.”  ― Swami Vivekananda

“Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be; if you think yourself strong, strong you will be.” ― Swami Vivekananda

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

“Each work has to pass through these stages-ridicule, oppositions, and then acceptance. Those who think superiority of their time are sure to be misunderstood.”  ― Swami Vivekananda

“Stand up, be bold, and take the vituperation on your own shoulders. Do not go well-nigh throwing mud at other; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.”  ― Swami Vivekananda

“When you are doing any work, do not think of anything beyond. Do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote your whole life to it for the time being.”  ― Swami Vivekananda

“Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Requite what you have to give; it will come when to you, but do not think of that now.” — Swami Vivekananda

“All differences in this world are of degree, and not of the kind considering oneness is the secret of everything.” — Swami Vivekananda

“This zipper of Love to God is indeed one that does not tighten the soul but powerfully breaks all its bondage.” — Swami Vivekananda

“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.” — Swami Vivekananda

“Be Grateful to the man you help, think of Him as God. It is not a unconfined privilege to be unliable to worship God by helping our fellow men.” — Swami Vivekananda

“There is one thing to be remembered: that the interjection – I am God- cannot be made with regard to the sense-world.” — Swami Vivekananda

“This, I have seen in life – those who are overcautious well-nigh themselves fall into dangers at every step. Those who are wrung of losing honour and respect, get only disgrace; and those who are unchangingly wrung of loss, unchangingly lose.” — Swami Vivekananda

“Astrology and all these mystical things are often signs of a weak mind. Therefore as soon as they are rhadamanthine prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.” — 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

“The less passion there is, the largest we work. The calmer we are the largest for us and the increasingly the value of work we can do.”  ― Swami Vivekananda

“Even the greatest fool can succeed a task if it were without his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste.”  ― Swami Vivekananda

“A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do increasingly in a year than a mob in a century.”  ― Swami Vivekananda

“The world is ready to requite up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to requite it the necessary blow. The strength and gravity of the wrack-up come through concentration.”  ― Swami Vivekananda

“We are unliable to worship him. Stand in that reverent vein to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non-attachment.” — Swami Vivekananda

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

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

“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 denomination or temple.” — Swami Vivekananda

“What is now wanted is a combination of the greatest heart with the highest intellectuality, of infinite love with infinite knowledge.” — Swami Vivekananda

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

“First, believe in the world that there is the meaning overdue everything.”  ― Swami Vivekananda

“Man is to wilt divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood.” ― Swami Vivekananda

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

“Don’t squint back-forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience. Then vacated can unconfined deeds be accomplished?”  ― Swami Vivekananda

“Talk to yourself at least once a day. Otherwise, you may miss a meeting with an spanking-new person in this world.”  ― Swami Vivekananda

“It is the duty of every person to contribute to the minutiae and progress of India.”  ― Swami Vivekananda

“Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has wilt hidden. But the real you is once perfect, once strong.”  ― Swami Vivekananda

“Great work requires unconfined and persistent effort for a long time…character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.”  ― Swami Vivekananda

“Work and worship are necessary to take yonder the veil, to lift off the vassalage and illusion.”  ― Swami Vivekananda

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

“It is the cheerful mind that is persevering. It is the strong mind that hews its way through a thousand difficulties.” — Swami Vivekananda

“It is the patient towers of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which vacated will tell in the future of humanity. ― Swami Vivekananda

“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take superintendency well-nigh what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.” — Swami Vivekananda

“Blows are what awaken us & help to unravel the dream. They show us the insufficiency of this world & make us long to escape, to have freedom.” — Swami Vivekananda

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

“It is the Level-headed Man, the Calm Man, of Good Judgment and tomfool nerves, of Unconfined sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.” — Swami Vivekananda

“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.” — Swami Vivekananda

“Be a here. Unchangingly say, I have no fear. Tell this to everyone – Have no fear.”  ― Swami Vivekananda

“We came to enjoy; we are stuff enjoyed. We came to rule; we are stuff ruled. We came to work; we are stuff worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.” ― Swami Vivekananda

“What the world wants is a character. The world is in need of those whose life is one urgent love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.” — Swami Vivekananda

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

“Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.” — Swami Vivekananda

“I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher. That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.” — Swami Vivekananda

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