1,842 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

Nothing is gained except by sacrifice.... Do not degrade it to the level of the brutes.... Make yourselves decent men! ... Be chaste and pure! ... There is no other way. Did Christ find any other way?

The wind of divine grace is always blowing. You just need to spread your sail. Whenever you do anything, do it with your whole heart concentrated on it. Think day and night, I am of the essence of that Supreme Being-Consciousness-Bliss. What fear and anxiety have I?

When we use our imagination properly it is our greatest friend; it goes belyond reason and is the only light that takes us everywhere.

All motion in this universe is in the form of waves, successively rising and falling.

The idea of God grew side by side with the idea of materialism.

Perfection can never be attained by work.

The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the race, and the nation must go down.

The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna used to say so.