Quotes By Swami Vivekananda

True progress is slow but sure.

Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.

Attachment comes only where we expect a return.

Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is!

Do not look back upon what has been done. Go Ahead.

There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation.

Music alone can take you to the Highest!

Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet.

You are strong, omnipotent, and omniscient. No matter that you have not expressed it yet, it is in you. All knowledge is in you, all power, all purity, and all freedom-why cannot you express this knowledge? Because you do not believe in it... Believe in it, and it must and will come out.

The will is stronger than anything else. Everything must go down before the will, for it comes from God. A pure and strong will is omnipotent.

Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining, of the mind.

They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.

Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.

The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

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.

Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much.

Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

He who has conquered the internal nature controls the whole universe; it becomes his servant.

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bearon one point.