1,842 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

Each work has to pass through these stages-ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

He alone teaches who has something to give, for teaching is not talking, teaching is not imparting doctrines, it is communicating.

Give everything and look for no return.

The Guru is the bright mask which God wears in order to come to us.

Never say, 'No', never say 'I cannot', for you are infinite, even time and space are nothing compared with your nature. You can do anything and everything, you are almighty.

Supreme oneness is the rationale of all ethics and morality. Ethics cannot be derived from the mere sanction to any personage. Some eternal principle of truth has the sanction of ethics. Where is the eternal sanction to be found except in the only infinite reality that exists in you and us and in all, in the self, in the soul?

Ethics come from the attainment of freedom, renunciation, which comes only when the individual attain a superior strength.

Arise! Awake! Stop not till the goal is reached.