1,842 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

Buddha taught kindness towards lower beings; and since then there has not been a sect in India that has not taught charity to all beings, even to animals. This kindness, this mercy, this charity – greater than any doctrine – are what Buddhism left to us.

Come out into the Universe of Light. Everything in the Universe is Yours, stretch out your arms and Embrace it with Love.

Business is business, no child’s play.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality – this is the trinity of bondage.

The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves.

My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation. Out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem like lions.

Say to your own minds, “I am He, I am He”. Let it ring day and night in your minds like a song, and at the point of death declare : “I am He”. That is truth; the infinite strength of the world is yours.

We want the education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one’s own feet.

He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.