Swami Vivekananda was an Indian philosopher, Hindu monk, author and religious teacher. He was born in 12th January, 1863 at Calcutta. He plays one of the important roles to introduce Vedanta and Yoga to the Western World.
Swami Vivekananda spread the awareness about yoga and Hinduism to the status of major world religion. Vivekananda became popular after his free speech at the Parliament of Religious in Chicago in the year 1893. He started spreading spirituality, motivation and religion from a young age.
Here are some of the most inspiring and motivational Quotes and Quotations by Swami Vivekananda on success, meditation, spirituality, free speech, youth, focus, education are as follows,
“We are what our thoughts have made us; so, take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.” – Swami Vivekananda
“All love is expansion; all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore, love for love’s sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.” – 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
“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
“The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on economic principles. The value of matter depends solely on its capacities of expressing ideas.” – Swami Vivekananda
“The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, 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, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.” – Swami Vivekananda
“In a day, when you don’t come across any problems you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path” – Swami Vivekananda
“So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.” – Swami Vivekananda
“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.” – Swami Vivekananda
“All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do anything and everything, without even the guidance of anyone. Stand up and express the divinity within you.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.” – Swami Vivekananda
“The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.” – Swami Vivekananda
“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.” – Swami Vivekananda
“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.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.” – Swami Vivekananda
“The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!” – Swami Vivekananda
“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.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.” – Swami Vivekananda
“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.” – 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
“Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Our duty is to encourage everyone 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.” – Swami Vivekananda
“All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Always try to represent yourself as happy. Initially, it becomes your look, gradually it becomes your habit and finally it becomes your personality.” – Swami Vivekananda
“All search is vain, until we begin to perceive that knowledge is within ourselves, that no one can help us, that we must help ourselves.” – Swami Vivekananda
“It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought makes 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
“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.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.” – Swami Vivekananda
“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.” – Swami Vivekananda
“I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Help does not come from without; it comes from within ourselves. Cry to all the gods in the universe. I cried for years, and in the end, I found that I was helped. But help came from within.” – Swami Vivekananda
“I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world tolerance & universal acceptance. we believe not only in universal toleration but we accept all religions as true.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure if you look back upon your lives you will find that you were always vainly trying to get help from others which never came.” – Swami Vivekananda
“We are what our thoughts have made us. So, take care about what you think. Words are secondary, thoughts live and travel far.” – Swami Vivekananda
“We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so, we have to know how to act.” – Swami Vivekananda
“God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Learn everything that is good from others but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Be brave and be sincere; then follow any path with devotion, and you must reach the Whole. Once lay hold of one link of the chain, and the whole chain must come by degrees.” – Swami Vivekananda
“All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Each work has to pass through these stages ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Cowards never win victories. We have to fight fear and troubles and ignorance if we expect them to flee before us.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Arise, awake, sleep no more; within each of you there is the power to remove all wants and all miseries. Believe this, and that power will be manifested.” – Swami Vivekananda
“A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to.” – Swami Vivekananda
“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.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Each person tries to hold himself faultless and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Being reminded of weakness does not help much; give strength, and strength does not come by thinking of weakness all the time. The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Each work has to pass through these stages: ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, 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, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced.” – Swami Vivekananda
“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.” – Swami Vivekananda
“There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Cut the bondage of all worldly affections; go beyond laziness and all care as to what becomes of you. Never turn back to see the result of what you have done.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Great things can be done by great sacrifices only.” – Swami Vivekananda
“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.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.” – Swami Vivekananda
“It is fear alone that is death. You have to go beyond all fear. So, from this day be fearless.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Mark you, let us all be honest. If we cannot follow the ideal, let us confess our weakness, but not degrade it; let not any try to pull it down.” – Swami Vivekananda