1,842 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

Shri Ramakrishna use to say, “As Long as I Live, so long do I learn”. That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.

Have faith in yourself. You people were once the Vedic Rishis. Only, you have come in different forms, that’s all. I see it clear as daylight that you all have infinite power in you. Rouse that up; arise, arise – apply yourselves heart and soul, gird up your loins.

We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether “the wise ones praise or blame us”.

This is the central idea of the Gita- to be calm and steadfast in all circumstances, with one’s body, mind, and soul centered at His hallowed feet!

You must be fearless. It is the coward who fears and defends himself.

Meditation, you know, comes by a process imagination. You go through all these processes purification of the elements – making the one melt the other, that into the next higher, that into mind, that into spirit, and then you are spirit.

Hinduism is the mother of all religions.

The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood – that marvellous, unselfish, all – suffering, ever – forgiving mother.

Don’t you find that in a weak physique it is difficult to control the sex – appetite or anger?