Swami Vivekananda
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.Collection: Truth
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.Collection: Good
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.Collection: Faith
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.Collection: Success
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.Collection: Travel
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.Collection: Good
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.Collection: God
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.Collection: God
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.Collection: God
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.Collection: Truth
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.Collection: God
External nature is only internal nature writ large.Collection: Nature
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.Collection: Power
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.Collection: Great
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.Collection: Fear
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.Collection: Teacher
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.Collection: God
May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.Collection: Strength
Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.
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.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
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.
When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.
In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
Never say NO, Never say, 'I cannot', for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything.Collection: Infinite
Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.Collection: Lazy
Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.Collection: Motivational
Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, U Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide!Collection: Inspirational
You are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the Almighty, Omnipresent, Divine Principle. You may laugh at me now, but the time will come when you will understand. You must. Nobody will be left behind.Collection: Laughing
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.Collection: Positive
All power is within you. Believe in that,do not believe that you are weak... Stand up and express the Divinity within you.Collection: Motivational
Talk to yourself atleast once in a Day.. Otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World.Collection: Motivational
Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.Collection: Worship
Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves.Collection: Grows
When I Asked God for Strength He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face When I Asked God for Brain & Brawn He Gave Me Puzzles in Life to Solve When I Asked God for Happiness He Showed Me Some Unhappy People When I Asked God for Wealth He Showed Me How to Work Hard When I Asked God for Favors He Showed Me Opportunities to Work Hard When I Asked God for Peace He Showed Me How to Help Others God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted He Gave Me Everything I Needed.Collection: Hard Work
Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.Collection: Patience
The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.Collection: Past
The whole point is to discipline the mind.Collection: Discipline
He who struggles is better than he who never attemptsCollection: Struggle
Everyone goes with the flow... but the one who goes against the flow becomes someone remarkable in life.Collection: Flow
It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.Collection: Power
The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.Collection: Inspirational
The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.Collection: World
Life is called Samsara - it is the result of the conflicting forces acting upon us. Materialism says, "The voice of freedom is a delusion." Idealism says, "The voice that tells of bondage is but a dream." Vedanta says, "We are free and not free at the same time." That means that we are never free on the earthly plane, but ever free on the spiritual side. The Self is beyond both freedom and bondage. We are Brahman, we are immortal knowledge beyond the senses, we are Bliss Absolute.Collection: Dream
As soon as we react, we become slaves. A man blames me, and I immediately react in the form of anger. A little vibration which he created made me a slave.Collection: Anger
The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much.Collection: Anger
The earth is enjoyed by heroes”—this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.Collection: Inspirational