1,842 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish.

It's the coward who says, 'This is fate'...It's the strong who stands up & says 'I will make my fate'

If a person who lives in God becomes miserable, what is the use of living in God? What is the use of such a God? Throw such a God overboard into the Pacific Ocean. We do not want such a God!

Every little bit, every atom inside the universe, is in a constant state of change and motion, but the universe as a whole is unchangeable, because motion or change is a relative thing; we can only think of something in motion in comparison with something which is not moving.

This Maya is everywhere. It is terrible. Yet we have to work through it. The man who says that he will work when the world has become all good and then he will enjoy bliss is as likely to succeed as the man who sits beside the Ganga and says, "I will ford the river when all the water has run into the ocean."

The Older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel

The world cares little for principles. They care for persons.

We have lost faith in ourselves. Therefore to preach the Advaita aspect of the Vedanta is necessary to rouse up the hearts of men, to show them the glory of their souls. It is therefore that I preach this Advaita, and I do so not as a sectarian, but upon universal and widely acceptable grounds.

In the English character, the "give and take" policy, the business principle of the trader, is principally inherent.