1,842 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

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.

Be a hero. Always say, 'I have no fear.' Tell this to everyone - 'Have no fear.'

What the world wants today is twenty men and women who can dare to stand in the street yonder and say that they possess nothing but God. Who will go? Why should one fear? If this is true, what else could matter? If it is not true, what do our lives matter?

How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.

If there is no strength in body and mind, the Atman cannot be realized. First you have to build the body by good nutritious food-then only will the mind be strong.

Renunciation is in our blood.

Charity never faileth.

The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time.

Through the imparting of moral principles, good behaviour, and education we must make the Chandala come up to the level of the Brahmana.