swami vivekananda quotations

Swami Vivekananda's Quoatatiions

1. Through out the history of mankind if any motive power has been more potent than another         in the lives of great men and women, it is that of faith in themselves.

2. Faith in ourselves will do everything.

3. First have faith in yourself than in God.

4. One who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.

5. Faith makes a lion of man.

6. As soon as man or a nation loses faith in himself or itself Death comes.

7. A man who does not believe in himself is an atheist.

8. If you have no faith in yourself there is no salvation for you.

9. Faith, faith, faith in ourself, faith, faith in God, this is the secret of greatness.

10. the secret of vendanta is first have faith in yourself before having faith in anything else.

11. faith is life, doubt is death.

12. Fear is the mother of all misery

13. The greatest sin is fear.

14. It is fear alone that is death.

15. It is the fear that is the greatest of all superstitions.

16. the moment you fear, you are nobody.

17. Dirt cannot wash dirt, hate cannot cure hate.


18. Love is a struggle of a human soul to find its complement, its stable equilibrium, its infinite rest.

19. Love opens the most impossible gates, love is the gate to all secrets of the universe.

20. Kindness and love can buy you the whole world.

21. The way of all ways to realization is love.

22. Love is existence, God Himself, and all this is the manifestation of that one Love, more or less expressed.

23. Perfect Love, the heart never reacting, this is what builds character.

24. He is the best ruler who can serve well.

25. Man is the best mirror, and the purer the man, the more clearly he can reflect God.

26. His (God) highest name is Om.

27. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of action.

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

29. What power is higher than the power of purity?

30. There is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.

31. One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.

32. If the principles are there, the persons will come by thousands and millions.

33. Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.

34. Science is nothing but the finding of unity.

35. Experience is the only teacher, the one eye opener.

36. it is the cheerful mind that is more persevering.

37. Time, space and causation, are in the mind.

38. each mind is connected with every other mind.

39. when the mind becomes functionless, it reflects Brahman conciousness.

40. whenever you think of yourself, you are bound to feel restless.

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

42. the senses cheat you day and night.

43. The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.

44. Strength is in goodness, in purity.

45. Superstition is the greatest enemy of man, but bigotry is the worse.

46. The Vedanta was (and is) the boldest system of religion.

47. the first step for the pure vedantist is Abhih, fearless.

48. I seek no help, I reject none.

49. I am a man of action.

50. Every moment is a new chance.

51. Concentration is the essence of all knowledge.

52. the calmer we are, the better for us, and the more the amount of work we can do.

53. The ghosts of past thoughts, past lives hold us down.

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