Swami Vivekananda Quotes: Swami Vivekananda one of the greatest spiritual leaders of India. He was a great inspiration is that he believed in the potential of the youth to change the world. Swami Vivekananda given many valuable slogans of life, Strength, on success, love, education and many topics. Here we collected top 50 quotes of Swami Vivekananda in English. Read these valuable quotes and inspire yourself.
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Everything is easy
when you are busy,
but nothing is easy
when you are lazy.
― Swami Vivekananda
In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.
― Swami Vivekananda
all power is within you;
you can do anything and everything.
― Swami Vivekananda
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
― Swami Vivekananda
The greatest sin is to think that you are weak.
― Swami Vivekananda
Talk to yourself once in a day, otherwise you may miss meeting an intelligent person in this world.
― Swami Vivekananda
You cannot believe in God
until you believe in yourself.
― Swami Vivekananda
I’m a lover, not a fighter, but I will fight for what I love.
― Swami Vivekananda
If I love myself despite my infinite faults, how can I hate anyone at the glimpse of a few faults?
― Swami Vivekananda
The God in you is the God in all. If you have not known this, you have known nothing.
― Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda Quotes in English
The highest truth is always the simplest. He who dares to seek the truth for truth’s sake is the greatest among men.
The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.
“Comfort” is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being “comfortable.”
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
Silence tells more sometimes than all the speech in the world.
We 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.
Be content to work, and, above all, be true to yourself. Be pure, staunch, and sincere to the very backbone, and everything will be all right.
“We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think; words are secondary; thoughts live, they travel far.”
Fight is out, whatever comes.
Let the stars move from the sphere!
Let the whole world stand against us!
Death means only a change of garment.
Inspiring Swami Vivekananda Quotes
Arise, awake, and stop not until the goal is achieved.
Take risks in your life. If you win, you can lead; if you lose, you can guide.
Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.
Things do not grow better: they remain as they are. It is we who grow better by the changes we make in ourselves.
Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves and try to do better.
When I asked God for strength, he gave me difficult situations to face.
It is the cheerful mind that is persevering. It is the strong mind that hews its way through a thousand difficulties.
All the powers of this universe are ours. We are the ones who put our hands on our eyes and then weep about how dark it is.
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.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as you’re thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Swami Vivekananda Quotes on Success
Infinite patience, Infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause.
When someone is rude, keep a smile on your face. When you keep your joy, you take away their power.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in your own mind.
Anything that makes you weak, physically, intellectually, and spiritually, reject as poison.
Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.
In a day, when you don’t come across any problems – you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.
Neither money pays, nor name, nor fame, nor learning; it is Character that cleaves through adamantine walls of difficulties.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to Success.
“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 Quotes on Humanity
People with good intentions Make promises, But People with good character Keep them.
Great men are those who build highways for others with their heart’s blood.
Who is helping you, don’t forget them. Who is loving you, don’t hate them. Who is believing you, don’t cheat them.
Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature becomes hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong.
Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
Do not believe in a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe in 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.
Never say any man is hopeless because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones.
Be grateful to him who curses you, for he gives you a mirror to show what cursing is, also a chance to practice self-restraint. So bless him and be glad.
Do not hate anybody because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you; if you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.
Our Karma determines what we deserve and what we can assimilate. We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.