Swami Vivekananda
The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.Collection: Progress
A brave, frank, clean-hearted, courageous and aspiring youth is the only foundation on which the future nation can be built.Collection: Motivational
Every time you meditate you will keep your growth.Collection: Growth
Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.Collection: Wall
If a thing happens once, it can happen again. If any human being has ever realised perfection, we too can do so. If we cannot become perfect here and now, we never can in any state or heaven or condition we may imagine.Collection: Perfect
There is no other teacher but your own soul.Collection: Spiritual
Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.Collection: Inspiration
The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.Collection: Effort
Music alone can take you to the Highest!Collection: Highest
Purity, perseverance, and energy - these three I want.Collection: Energy
Without birth or death, eternal, ever-existing, free, unchangeable and beyond all conditions is this Soul of man – the real Self of Man – the Atman.Collection: Real
We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will still continue to exist until man’s character changes.Collection: Country
The “ego” like its correlative “non-ego”, is the product of the body, mind etc. The only proof of the existence of the real Self is realisation.Collection: Real
I ask you all so earnestly to open girl’s schools in every village and try to uplift them. If the Conditions of women are raised, then their children will, by their noble actions, glorify the name of the Country.Collection: Country