1,842 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.

Every successful man must have behind him somewhere tremendous integrity, tremendous sincerity, and that is the cause of his signal success in life. He may not have been perfectly unselfish; yet he was tending towards it. If he had been perfectly unselfish, his would have been as great a success as that of the Buddha or of the Christ. The degree of unselfishness marks the degree of success everywhere.

One ounce of the practice of righteousness and of spiritual Self-realisation outweighs tons and tons of frothy talk and nonsensical sentiments.

Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much.

One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands.

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

Arise, awake, stop not until your goal is achieved.

Two things control man’s character; Strength and Pity.