There is no engine that can pull against a heart – there is no force in the world which can pull against a heart . Put your heart into your work and nothing can stop you.
― Swami Vivekananda
Never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.
― Swami Vivekananda
The brave alone do great things, not the cowards.
― Swami Vivekananda
The only way to rise is by doing the duty next to us, and thus gathering strength go on until we reach the highest state.
― Swami Vivekananda
All things in the universe are of divine origin and deserve to be loved.
― Swami Vivekananda
You want breath, without it you cannot live; you want bread, without it you cannot live; you want a house, without it you cannot live. When you want God as you want these things, He manifests himself to you.
― Swami Vivekananda
No work is petty. Everything in this world is like a banyan-seed, which, though appearing tiny as a mustard-seed, has yet the gigantic banyan tree latent within it. He indeed is intelligent who notices this and succeeds in making all work truly great.
― Swami Vivekananda
Death is better than a vegetating ignorant life; it is better to die on the battlefield than to live a life of defeat… Come, do something heroic!
― Swami Vivekananda
Enough of books and theories. It is the life that is the highest and the only way to stir the hearts of people; it carries the personal magnetism.
― Swami Vivekananda
Wisdom can be practised even on a battlefield. The Gitâ was preached so.
― Swami Vivekananda
If you are really pure, how do you see the impure? For what is within, is without. We cannot see impurity without having it inside ourselves. This is one of the practical sides of Vedanta, and I hope that we shall all try to carry it into our lives. Our whole life here is to carry this into practice.
― Swami Vivekananda
You must remember that all work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there, to wake up the soul.
― Swami Vivekananda
Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood: but on and on he must progress.
― Swami Vivekananda
The pure and the stainless see God, yea, even in this life; then and then only all the crookedness of the heart is made straight. Then all doubt ceases.
― Swami Vivekananda
There comes a time in the lives of individuals and of races when, involuntarily, they ask, “Is this real?” To the person who never finds a moment to question the credentials of his senses, whose every moment is occupied with some sort of sense-enjoyment—even to him death comes, and he also is compelled to ask, “Is this real?” Religion begins with this question and ends with its answer.
― Swami Vivekananda
If there is ever to be a universal religion, it must be one which will have no location in place or time; which will be infinite like the God it will preach, and whose sun will shine upon the followers of Krishna and of Christ, on saints and sinners alike; which will not be Brahminic or Buddhistic, Christian or Mohammedan, but the sum total of all these, and still have infinite space for development.
― Swami Vivekananda
Everyone of you must be a giant—must, that is my word. Obedience, readiness, and love for the cause—if you have these three, nothing can hold you back.
― Swami Vivekananda
The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it.
― Swami Vivekananda
In a truly noble work, not to speak of men, even God Himself befriends the doer.
― Swami Vivekananda
The powers of the mind should be concentrated and turned back upon itself, and as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so will this concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets.
― Swami Vivekananda
