Swami Vivekananda Quotes

struggle is the life of sucess

To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character. तत्र

By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger

Superstition is our great enemy, but bigotry is worse.

We are like the caterpillar which takes the thread out of his own body and of that makes the cocoon, and behold, he is caught.

What right has a man to say he has a soul if he does not feel it, or that there is a God if he does not see Him? If there is a God we must see Him, if there is a soul we must perceive it; otherwise it is better not to believe. It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

The ideal man is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.

The great men think, and you and I [also] think. But there is a difference.

Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry. The soul has no sex, no country, no place, no time.

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.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you free.

Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.