Quotes from Swami vivekananda

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1. Choose the highest ideal and live your life upto

that. Look at the " ocean " and not at the wave.

 

2. That which tends to increase the divinity in you

is virtue and that which tends to increase brutality in you

is vice.

 

3. He who sees Shiva in the poor, in the weak, and

in the diseased, really worships Shiva.

 

4. Purity in thought, speech, and act is absolutely

necessary for anyone to be religious. Purity is strength.

Spiritual truth is purity.

 

5. The ideal of the man is to see God in everything.

The real evil is idleness which is the principal cause of

our poverty.

 

6. Everyone should know that there is no salvation

except through the conquering of desires.

 

7. Death being so certain, it is better to die for a

good cause.

 

8. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity

already in man.

 

9. Your country requires heroes, be heroes!

 

10.To me the very essence of education is

concentration of the mind, not the collecting of facts.

 

11.Each soul is potentially divine.

 

12.Religion is the idea which is raising the brute

unto man, and man unto God.

 

13.All power is within you; you can do anything and

everything. Believe in that.

 

14.Work, work, work - let this be your motto.

 

15.Now the only way out is to listen to the words of

the Lord in the Gita.

 

16.Be a hero. Always say, " I have no fear " .

 

17.Struggle hard to get money, but don't get

attached to it.

 

18.Feel that you are great and you become great.

 

19.To devote your life to the good of all and to the

happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own

sake is not religion.

 

20.At my will mountains will crumble up. Have that

sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will

reach the goal.

 

21.It is those foolish people who identify

themselves with their bodies that piteously cry, 'Weak,

weak, we are weak'.

 

22.Keep the motto before you: " Elevation of the

masses without injuring their religion " .

 

23.Man never progresses from error to truth, but

from truth to truth, from lesser truth to higher truth.

 

24.Avoid all weakness, for weakness is sin, weakness

is death.

 

25.Never talk about the faults of others, no matter

how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by that.

 

26.I shall inspire men everywhere until the world

shall know that it is one with God.

 

27.Let us go forward and do yet greater things.

 

28.The more selfish a man, the more immoral he is.

 

29.Give to the weak, for there all the gift is

needed.

 

30.Knowledge exists, man only discovers it.

 

31.Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or

heaven.

 

32.Be courageous. Do not try to lead your brethren,

but serve them.

 

33.Be the witness and do not react, only thus can

you be happy.

 

34.None can help you, help yourself; work out your

own salvation.

 

35.Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous

work.

 

36.Try to love anybody and everybody.

 

37.You have to go from the inside out. None can

teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other

teacher but your own soul.

 

38.Know it for certain that you are in everything.

 

39.Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or

a year.

 

40.Let all your nerves vibrate through the backbone

of your religion.

 

41.Do not talk much, but feel the spirit within you.

 

42.If you want to be spiritual, you must renounce.

 

43.Your way is the best for you, but that is no sign

that it is the best for others.

 

44.Renounce the lower so that you may get the

higher.

 

45.Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him

in our own hearts and in every living being?

 

46.Your work is to serve the poor and miserable,

without distinction of caste or colour.

 

47.Help another because you are in him and he is in

you.

 

48.The poor, the illiterate, the ignorant, the

afflicted,...let these be your God. Know that service to

these alone is the highest religion.

 

49.If I am in the dark, let me light a lamp.

 

50.The earth's bravest and best will have to

sacrifice themselves for the good of many, for the welfare

of all.

 

51.Every duty is holy, and devotion to duty is the

highest form of worship of God.

 

52.We only get what we deserve. It is a lie when we

say, the world is bad and we are good. It can never be so.

 

53.You will understand the mighty strength of

Krishna better with a little of strong blood in you.

 

54.It is struggle against nature and not conformity

to nature that makes man what he is.

 

55.Each work has to pass through these stages -

ridicule, opposition and then acceptance.

 

56.First there should be strict

integrity...Secondly, entire devotion to the cause

 

57.The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound

by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will

which is free.

 

58.You fail only when you do not strive sufficiently

to manifest infinite power.

 

59.Whatever you do, devote your whole Mind, Heart,

and Soul to it.

 

60.Whatever you think, that you will be. If you

think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think

yourselves strong, strong you will be.

 

61.Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they

are the beauty of life - these failures.

 

62.He works best who works without any motive,

neither for money, nor for fame, nor for anything else.

 

63.The new religion says that he is an atheist who

does not believe in himself.

 

64.Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

 

65.You should work like a master and not as a slave;

work incessantly, but do not do a slave's work

 

66.Believe that the soul is immortal, infinite and

all powerful.

 

67.Even if the order be wrong, first obey and then

contradict it.

 

68.Be a hero. Always say, " I have no fear " .

 

69.Our first duty is not to hate ourselves; because

to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in

God.

 

With Love

Sivakumar