Swami Vivekananda Quotes for Life and Wisdom

Narendranath Datta who popularly known as Swami Vivekananda born on 12 January 1863 a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna paramahamsa. He is best known for his speech which began with the words – Sisters and brothers of America at 1893 in Chicago. In last one century, hundreds of scholarly books have been written on Vivekananda, his works and his philosophy in different languages. He was a key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world.

Vivekananda spent nearly two years lecturing in the eastern and central United States, primarily in Chicago, Detroit, Boston, and New York. He founded the Vedanta Society of New York in 1894. Nationalism was a prominent theme in Vivekananda thought. He believed that a country’s future depends on its people, and his teachings focused on human development. He gave several teachings to mankind on improvement of human development. Here we have the famous quotes of Swami Vivekananda

Books of Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda Quotes on Yoga

It is quite necessary that we should find a posture in which we can remain long. That posture which is the easiest for one should be the one chosen
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One does not necessarily need to practice all types of Yogas to attain perfection
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All this bringing of the mind into a higher state of vibration is included in one word in Yoga — Samadhi
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The next step is Asana, posture. A series of exercises, physical and mental, is to be gone through every day, until certain higher states are reached. Therefore it is quite necessary that we should find a posture in which we can remain long. That posture which is the easiest for one should be the one chosen
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Swami Vivekananda Quotes on Meditation

quotes of swami vivekananda — Quotes of Yoga & Meditation

Meditation can turn fools in to sages but unfortunately fools never meditate.
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That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
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The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.
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Swami Vivekananda quotes on education

Learning and wisdom are superfluity, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
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Experience is the only teacher we have, we may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth
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All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything
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Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet.
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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.
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Swami Vivekananda Quotes on Success

Arise, awake and do not stop until the goal is reached.
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In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart
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Strength is life; weakness is death.
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Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
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If you think yourselves strong, strong you will be
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You are the creator of your own destiny
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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.
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Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else
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The great 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
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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.
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Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself
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When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
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Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste.
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Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work
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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.
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Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you
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Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable
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Swami Vivekananda Quotes on Religion

Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.
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The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
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If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance. It is the word of “fearlessness”.
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You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
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We are allowed to worship him. Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non-attachment.
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The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that
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Quotes of Swami Vivekananda

Talk to yourself once in a day, otherwise you may miss meeting an excellent person in this world
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Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong. Tell your mind that it is strong and have unbound faith and hope in yourself
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The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong
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If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better
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The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words
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All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
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The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words
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Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear. Tell this to everyone – Have no fear
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Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself
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It is our own mental attitude 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.
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We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
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The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do.
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A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.
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Desire, ignorance, and inequality –this is the trinity of bondage.
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Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
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We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough.
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Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
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Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong.
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It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
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if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If not, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
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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.
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