Swami Vivekananda Quotes about Ambition

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If there be no eternal life, still the enjoyment of spiritual thoughts as ideals is keener and makes a man happier, whilst the foolery of materialism leads to competition and undue ambition and ultimate death,

If there be no eternal life, still the enjoyment of spiritual thoughts as ideals is keener and makes a man happier, whilst the foolery of materialism leads to competition and undue ambition and ultimate death, individual and national.

Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual, Ambition, Men

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2938, Manonmani Publishers

The natural ambition of woman is through marriage to climb up, leaning upon a man; but those days are gone. You shall be great without the help of any man, just as you are.

Swami Vivekananda

Marriage, Ambition, Men

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1945, Manonmani Publishers

Behind my work was ambition, behind my love was personality, behind my purity was fear, behind my guidance the thirst for power. Now they are vanishing and I drift. I come, Mother, I come, in Thy warm bosom, floating wheresoever Thou takest me, in the voiceless, in the strange, in the wonderland, I come - a spectator, no more an actor.

Swami Vivekananda

Mother, Ambition, Personality

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3000, Manonmani Publishers

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.

Swami Vivekananda

Mother, Blessed, Ambition