Famous Qoutes by Swami Vivekananda

1. The more the emotions are under control, the healthier becomes one’s personality.

2. Every action or thought of ours leaves an impression in our mind. The sum total of all our impressions is what determines our character.

3. The only sin is to think oneself and others are weak.

4. The personality of man is two-thirds, and his intellect, his words, are but one-third.

5. When persons do evil actions, they become more and more evil, and when they begin to do good, they become stronger and stronger and learn to do good at all times.

6. Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves  first and then in God.

7. All must struggle to be individuals – strong, standing on your own feet, thinking your own thoughts, realizing your own self.

8. Imagination will lead you to the highest more easily and quickly than reason.

9. By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God, nearer than any prayer.

10. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

11. Be brave and face everything – come good, come evil, both welcome, both of my play.

12. Cultivate always faith in yourself.

13. Never allow weakness to over take your mind.

14. Die you must. There is none  to help you. You are the whole. Who can help you?

15. All power is in me, all knowledge, all purity and all freedom.

16. Faith in ourself will do everything.

17. change can only be in the limited.

18. Perfect love, the heart never reacting, this is what builds character.

19. we are weak because we are ignorant.

20. man is a compound of animality, humanity and divinity.

21. the real work is in the practice

22. the Purusha is not the doer but the witness.

23. Spiritual truth is purity.

24. the object of life is to learn.

25. everything is prana, it is moving the sun, the moon and the stars.

26. My stay- my guide in life-  my refuge- my friend- my teacher – my God- my real Self , thou will never leave me, never.

27. I seek no help, I reject none.

28. I hate only one thing in the world – hypocracy.

I believe in reason and follow reason.

29. I don’t believe in reform, I believe in growth.

30. I believe in going even to hell to save others.

31. It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.

32. To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself, for the man within dies and God alone remains.
33. the greatest thing is to have faith in oneself, even before having faith in God.

34. it is not that you are going to become God or perfect, you are already perfect, and whenever you think you are not it is a delusion.

35. the more we say ‘I’ and ‘mine’, the more slavery grows, the more misery increases.