Swami Vivekananda Quotes

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Since the inception of mankind, human beings have believed that miracles are caused by God. More often than not, people underestimate the role that self-confidence plays in leading a successful life. Living, breathing, moving, but, without a purpose, without a destiny. This makes us gloomy, and lose self-belief. Losing self-belief is losing belief in a living thing that God made.

Be the servant while leading. Be unselfish. Have infinite patience, and success is yours.

Have patience and be faithful unto death. Do not fight among yourselves. Be perfectly pure in money dealings… We will do great things yet… So long as you have faith and honesty and devotion, everything will prosper. Be the servant while leading. Be unselfish. Have infinite patience, and success is yours.

Educate and raise the masses, and thus alone a nation is possible.

The training by which the current and expression of will are brought under control and become fruitful is called education. Education is about the unleashing of human capabilities: economic, civic, and humanistic. When education is successful, it enables individuals not merely to exercise their agency in participating in an economic, civic, and humanistic activity but also to shape or re-shape economic, civic, and humanistic life.

If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.

purety means doing things that are morally right. When one is honest, it means they’re truthful, trustworthy, sincere, loyal, and fair. purity is one of the most important attributes in life. It gives you peace of mind where you’re not troubled by the lies you tell. If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

There is one absolute truth, that is hard to say and fathom. Swami Vivekananda emphasized that truth can have different perspectives. We need not quarrel over each and every difference of opinion in life: Different opinions must co-exist for the sake of a free world. The truth remains the truth no matter how it is said and presented.

Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.

We should never be dejected or depressed when failures torment us. We should go ahead and stop not till the goal is reached. All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; Stand up and express the divinity within you. Therefore, “Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.”

Talk to yourself once in a day, otherwise, you may miss meeting an intelligent person in this world.

Self-talk is, quite simply, a running internal monologue about your feelings, your frustrations, your actions, your goals, your beliefs, your circumstances, your dreams, and your nightmares. A good dialogue going between yourself helps in clarifying your thoughts and even lifting your mood.

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

To dare is to indeed take a risk, to rise up to a challenge, to face – and then face down – the things you believe hold you back. Liberation from your own limitations is invigorating, there’s no greater motivation than to dare to be yourself, to become the version of you that you most want to be – and, as has been written before, there is literally no limit to where your thoughts can lead you.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

The quote ''In a conflict between the heart and the brain follow your heart''. It explains that we should follow our heart if we are at war between heart and mind. The reason is that brain doesn't get inspired easily by others. In the case of the heart, it can get inspired and open up new gates for the options.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

This statement tells us that lots of problems, misunderstandings, and events will occur in our life, by overcoming than we have become stronger and more humble for every situation. The world is like a gym where we can make ourselves strong in every aspect of life as we encounter different situations, and various people with distinct mindsets.