Top 100 Vivekananda's Quotes
#1. Do you share my belief in Swami Vivekananda's dream that India will be a Jagad Guru once again? I see no reason for India to be left behind.
Narendra Modi
#2. As all the rivers of the world constantly pour their waters into the ocean, but the ocean's grand, majestic nature remains undisturbed and unchanged,
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#3. 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.
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#4. Man's experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
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#5. It's the coward who says, 'This is fate' ... It's the strong who stands up & says 'I will make my fate'
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#6. This is the great lesson that we are here to learn through myriads of births and heavens and hells-that there is nothing to be asked for, desired for, beyond one's spiritual Self (atman).
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#8. 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.
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#10. Don't give any chance for others to stole your smile.Because,it's the most valuable asset than anything in your life!
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#11. Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years.
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#14. All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody's property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
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#15. This world is like a dog's curly tail, and people have been striving to straighten it out for hundreds of years; but when they let it go, it has curled up again. How could it be otherwise? One must first know how to work without attachment, then one will not be a fanatic.
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#16. What is the use of talking of one's mistakes to the world? They cannot thereby be undone. For what one has done one must suffer; one must try and do better. The world sympathizes only with the strong and the powerful.
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#17. By all means make a start - even if it's for the wrong reason.
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#18. It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good
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#19. No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors are the common weakness of humanity and should never be counted in estimating a person's character.
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#20. Even now, when you get love, you see Radha. Become Radha and be saved. There is no other way, Christians do not understand Solomon's song. They call it prophecy symbolising Christ's love for the Church. They think it nonsense and father some story upon it.
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#21. It is not God's fault. It is our fault that we suffer. Whatever we sow we reap.
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#22. I ask you all so earnestly to open girl's schools in every village and try to uplift them. If the Conditions of women are raised, then their children will, by their noble actions, glorify the name of the Country.
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#23. Free thyself from the mighty attraction-
The maddening wine of love, the charm of sex.
Break the harp! Forward, with the ocean's cry! ...
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#24. Real love is love for love's sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.
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#25. I love my nation, I cannot see you degraded, weakened any more than you are now. Therefore I am bound for your sake and for truth's to cry, "Hold!" and to raise my voice against this degradation of my race. Give up these weakening mysticism and be strong ...
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#26. I pity the Hindu who does not see the beauty in Jesus Christ's character. I pity the Christian who does not reverence the Hindu Christ.
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#27. Have faith in yourself. You people were once the Vedic Rishis. Only, you have come in different forms, that's all. I see it clear as daylight that you all have infinite power in you. Rouse that up; arise, arise - apply yourselves heart and soul, gird up your loins.
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#28. He works for work's sake. Work for work's sake. Worship for worship's sake.
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#29. Religion and religion alone is the life of India, and when that goes India will die, in spite of politics, in spite of social reforms, in spite of Kubera's wealth poured upon the head of every one of her children.
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#31. you should work like a master and not as a slave; work incessantly, but do not do slave's work.
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#32. The very reason for nature's existence is for the education of the soul.
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#33. We must be the masters, and not the slaves of nature; neither body nor mind must be our master, nor must we forget that the body is mine, and not I the body's.
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#34. It is a good discipline to be forced to work for work's sake, even to the length of not being allowed to enjoy the fruits of one's labour ...
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#35. Each nation has a theme: everything else is secondary. India's theme is religion.
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#36. Never try to follow another's path for that is his way, not yours. When that path is found, you have nothing to do but fold your arms and the tide will carry you to freedom.
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#37. If a piece of burning charcoal be placed on a man's head, see how he struggles to throw it off. Similar will be the struggle for freedom of those who really understand that they are slaves of nature.
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#38. If you want to be religious, enter not the gate of any organised religions. They do a hundred times more evil than good, because they stop the growth of each one's individual development.
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#39. All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.
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#41. This is the central idea of the Gita- to be calm and steadfast in all circumstances, with one's body, mind, and soul centered at His hallowed feet!
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#42. I am a very proud Hindu. The foundation of my personality is laid on the teachings of Swami Vivekananda or Sanatan Dharm or the Geeta. And if my religious practices or anybody's religious practices is given any kind of sadistic name, it instills fear about other person's religious practices.
Kangana Ranaut
#44. There is only one sin and it is: weakness. When I was a boy, I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good man I had any respect for was Satan. The only saint is that person who never weakens, faces everything, and determines die game.
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#45. Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with my tears, but with my heart's blood!
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#46. Thought ceases in meditation; even the mind's elements are quite quiet. Blood circulation stops. His breath stops, but he is not dead.
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#47. When you have trained your mind and your nerves to realise this idea of the world's nondependence on you or on anybody, there will then be no reaction in the form of pain resulting from work.
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#48. If you are angry, and then happy, the next moment the anger passes away. Out of that anger you manufactured the next state. These states are always interchangeable. Eternal happiness and misery are a child's dream.
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#49. Religion has become to many merely a means of doing a little charity work, just to amuse them after a hard day's labour - they get five minutes religion to amuse them. This is the danger with the liberal thought.
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#50. There is a conflict in Arjuna's heart between his emotionalism and his duty.
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#51. Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there.
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#52. The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.
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#53. Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much.
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#54. Never mind failures; they are quite natural,
they are the beauty of life, these failures.
What would be LIFE without them
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#55. If I am a Pariah, I will be all the more glad, for I am the disciple of a man, who - the Brahmin of Brahmins - wanted to cleanse the house of a Pariah. (here "the man" means Ramakrishna)
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#56. 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!
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#57. May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward!
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#58. It is nature that is changing, not the soul of man. This never changes.
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#59. From Him are all name and form; all the animals and men are from Him. He is the one Supreme. He who knows Him becomes free.
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#61. the appearances of happiness or unhappiness of the soul are but reflections.
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#62. May blessings and happiness attend every step of your progress in this world.
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#63. I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense.
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#64. The Jivanmukta ('the living free' or one who knows) alone is able to give real love, real charity, real truth, and it is truth alone that makes us free.
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#67. There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing.
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#68. In spirituality the Americans are very inferior to us. But their society is very superior to ours
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#69. Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.
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#70. Business is business, that is, you must do everything promptly; delay and shuffling won't do.
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#72. Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
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#73. No negative, all positive, affirmative. I am, God is, everything is in me. I will manifest health, purity, knowledge, whatever I want.
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#74. Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.
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#75. Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming what it believes.
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#76. In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed on you. Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us.
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#78. Religion in India must be made as free and as easy of access as is God's air.
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#79. Yes, the words of the Mother can be heard as clearly as we hear one another. But one requires a fine nerve to hear Mother's words.
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#81. Something cannot be made out of nothing. Nor can something be made to go back to nothing.
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#82. By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands now, we make ourselves stronger; and improving our strength in this manner step by step, we may reach a state in which it shall be our privilege to do the most coveted and honored duties in life and in society.
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#83. I fervently wish no misery ever came near anyone; yet it is that alone that gives us an insight into the depths of our lives, does it not? In our moments of anguish, gates barred forever seem to open and let in many a flood of light.
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#84. The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.
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#85. The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a religious life. The more sects there are, the more opportunities there are for making a successful appeal to the divine instinct in all of us.
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#86. You may meditate on whatever you like, but I shall meditate on the heart of a lion. That gives strength
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#87. You need not worry or make yourself sleepless about the world; it will go on without you.
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#88. Nature grinds all of us. Keep count of the ounce of pleasure you get. In the long run, nature did her work through you, and when you die your body will make other plants grow. Yet we think all the time that we are getting pleasure ourselves. Thus the wheel goes round.
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#89. We want the education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet.
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#90. Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it.
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#91. The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought.
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#93. 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.
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#94. Do you have the belief in you to move on, even when the whole world is against you, with swords in their hands?
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#95. The success sometimes may come immediately, but we must be ready to wait patiently even for what may look like an infinite length of time. The student who sets out with such a spirit of perseverance will surely find success and realisation at last.
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#96. Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri Krishna declares.
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#97. A monk is not forbidden to marry, but if he takes a wife she becomes a monk with the same powers and privileges and occupies the same social position as her husband.
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#98. Even books are nurses, medicines are nurses. But we must work to bring about the time when man shall recognise his mastery over his own body. Herbs and medicines have power over us as long as we allow them; when we become strong, these external methods are no more necessary.
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#99. The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.
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#100. My brother, do men grieve over the fight of cats and dogs? So the jealousy, envy, and elbowing of common men should make no impression on your mind.
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