Quotes By Swami Vivekananda

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

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.

Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.

The moment you fear, you are nobody.

According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege.

You know the disease, you know the remedy, only have faith.

If you have knowledge and see a man weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and help him if you can. He must grow.

Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow. Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often run from one extreme to the other.

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.

Every time you meditate you will keep your growth.

You yourselves are the Being you are seeking.

No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion, which arouses the internal teacher, who helps us to understand things.

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.

Know full well that patience is the best means of succeeds.

If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.

It is faith that makes a lion of a man.

There is but one temple - the body. It is the only temple that ever existed.

If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions.

We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.

Whatever you believe, that you will be. If you believe yourselves to be sages, sages you will be tomorrow. There is nothing to obstruct you.