1,842 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

Everybody is changing.

Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness. Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world.

Whatsoever has form must be the result of combinations of particles and requires something else behind it to move it.

My boat is nearing the calm harbour from which it is never more to be driven out. Glory, glory unto Mother! (Referring to the Divine Mother of the Universe.) I have no wish, no ambition now. Blessed be Mother! I am the servant of Ramakrishna. I am merely a machine. I know nothing else. Nor do I want to know.

To me the thought of oneself as low and humble is a sin and ignorance.

While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many.

That is the great fact which you ought to remember. We are the children of the Almighty, we are sparks of the infinite, divine fire. How can we be nothings? We are everything, ready to do everything, we can do everything, and man must do everything.

No cowardice, no sin, no crime, no weakness - the rest will come of itself. . .

Thirst after body is the great bane of human life.