Top 20 Quotes from Swami Vivekananda
Recently, I have been focusing a lot on personal and spiritual growth, and Swami Vivekananda’s teachings have really stood out to me—especially his ideas on resilience. His thoughts on discipline, love, self-belief, hard work, and growth have made a big impact on my life, so I felt like sharing 20 of his most powerful quotes with you all.
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1. In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.
2. Cowards and fools say it was my fate, but the strong man stands up and says I WILL CREATE MY FATE.
3. Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.
4. Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success, and above all, love.
5. Do one thing at a time, and while doing it, put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
6. The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
7. All power is within you; you can do anything and everything.
8. You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
9. Take risks in your life. If you win, you can lead; if you lose, you can guide.
10. Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
11. We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
12. Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.
13. Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
14. To be pure, to be brave, to be strong, one must practice celibacy, which is the highest discipline of the body and mind. In celibacy lies the power of life. It is the secret of greatness, of both body and soul.
15. 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.
16. Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
17. There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
18. 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.
19. Anything that makes weak – physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
20. 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.