July 4th, 2018 | Updated on February 3rd, 2023
Swami Vivekananda was an iconic and inspirational figure for many and his influence on youth continues to be strong. We have come up with 85 inspiring quotes of Swami Vivekananda.
1. Experience is the only teacher we have. we may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth. – Swami Vivekananda
2. 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
3. Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at other; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause. – Swami Vivekananda
4. Whatever you believe, that you will be, If you believe yourselves to be ages, ages you will be tomorrow. There is nothing to obstruct you. – Swami Vivekananda
5. All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak; do ot believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. – Swami Vivekananda
6. When you are doing any work.. do it as worship, as he highest worship, and devote your whole life to it for the time being. – Swami Vivekananda
7. 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
8. Dare to be free dare to go as far as you’re thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life. – Swami Vivekananda
9. Arise awake – 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
10. 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. – Swami Vivekananda
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11. This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive. – Swami Vivekananda
12. If you really my children, you will fear nothing, stop at nothing, you will be like lions,,, My prayers and benedictions follow every step you take… everything will come to you if you have faith. – Swami Vivekananda
13. Neither money pays, not name, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that an cleave through adamantine walls of difficulties. – Swami Vivekananda
14. 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
15. 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
16. In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart. – Swami Vivekananda
17. 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
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18. The greatest sin is to think yourself weak. – Swami Vivekananda
19. Anything that makes weak – physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison. – Swami Vivekananda
20. Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment. – Swami Vivekananda
21. The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire. – Swami Vivekananda
22. Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others. – Swami Vivekananda
23. 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
24. 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
25. Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else. – Swami Vivekananda
26. Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable. – Swami Vivekananda
27. Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, ‘Thy will be done.’ We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go. – Swami Vivekananda
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28. 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
29. 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
30. 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
31. 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
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32. 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
33. All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything. – Swami Vivekananda
34. Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable. – Swami Vivekananda
35. You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. – Swami Vivekananda
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36. Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life. – Swami Vivekananda
37. The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves. – Swami Vivekananda
38. Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached. – Swami Vivekananda
39. 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
40. Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes. – Swami Vivekananda
41. 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
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42. 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
43. Strength is Life, Weakness is Death. Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death. Love is Life, Hatred is Death. – Swami Vivekananda
44. They alone live, who live for others. – Swami Vivekananda
45. 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
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46. 3 Golden rules!! Who is helping you, don’t forget them. Who is loving you, don’t hate them. Who is trusting you, don’t cheat them. – Swami Vivekananda
47. Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better. – Swami Vivekananda
48. 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
49. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.” Tell this to everybody –“Have no fear”. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, fear is wrong life. – Swami Vivekananda
50. Cowards never win victories. We have to fight fear and troubles and ignorance if we expect them to flee before us. – Swami Vivekananda
51. Darkness never existed, weakness never existed. We who are fools cry that we are weak; we who are fools cry that we are impure. – Swami Vivekananda
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52. Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later. – Swami Vivekananda
53. God is not to be reached by the weak. Never be weak. You have infinite strength within you. How else will you conquer anything? How else will you come to God? – Swami Vivekananda
54. Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause. – Swami Vivekananda
55. 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
56. If you read the Vedas, you will find this word always repeated — fearlessness — fear nothing. Fear is a sign of weakness. A man must go about his duties without taking notice of the sneers and the ridicule of the world. – Swami Vivekananda
57. Great things can be done by great sacrifices only. – Swami Vivekananda
58. Let people say whatever they like, stick to your own convictions, and rest assured, the world will be at your feet. They say, ‘Have faith in this fellow or that fellow’, but, I say, ‘Have faith in yourself first’. that’s the way. – Swami Vivekananda
59. No need for looking behind. FORWARD! We want infinite energy, infinite zeal, infinite courage, and infinite patience, then only will great things achieved. – Swami Vivekananda
60. Nothing else is necessary but these — love, sincerity, and patience. – Swami Vivekananda
61. Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow. – Swami Vivekananda
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62. Stand and die in your own strength, if there is any sin in the world, it is weakness; avoid all weakness, for weakness is sin, weakness is death. – Swami Vivekananda
63. What this world wants today, more than it ever did before, is strength. – Swami Vivekananda
64. This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon any one outside, but be a man, stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find, that is always true. Get hold of yourself. – Swami Vivekananda
64. Truth, purity, and unselfishness — wherever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof. Equipped with these, one individual is able to face the whole universe in opposition. – Swami Vivekananda
65. We are our own help. If we cannot help ourselves, there is none to help us. – Swami Vivekananda
66. We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether “the wise ones praise or blame us”. – Swami Vivekananda
67. You must have an iron will if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains. – Swami Vivekananda
68. Take care! Beware of everything that is untrue; stick to truth and we shall succeed, maybe slowly, but surely. – Swami Vivekananda
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69. 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. – Swami Vivekananda
70. The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties. – Swami Vivekananda
71. 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
72. 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
73. Don’t look back -forward infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience – then alone can great deeds be accomplished. – Swami Vivekananda
74. Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mothers of great deeds. – Swami Vivekananda
75. Talk to yourself once in a day, otherwise, you may miss meeting an excellent person in this world. – Swami Vivekananda
76. 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
77. Take up one idea, make that one idea your life, think of it, dream of it, 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
78. Learn everything that is good from others but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others. – Swami Vivekananda
79. A man is not poor without a rupee but a man is really poor without a dream and ambition. – Swami Vivekananda
80. Take risks in your life. If you win, you can lead, if you lose, you can guide. – Swami Vivekananda
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81. Arise, awake, and stop not until the goal is achieved. – Swami Vivekananda
82. Learn everything that is good from others but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others. – Swami Vivekananda
83. Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else. – Swami Vivekananda
84. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear. – Swami Vivekananda
85. Every man should take up his own ideal and endeavour to accomplish it. That is a surer way of progress than taking up other men’s ideals, which he can never hope to accomplish. – Swami Vivekananda
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