Authors:

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Swami Vivekananda Quotes about Motivational - Page 4

All Swami Vivekananda Quotes Acceptance Achievement Age Ambition Anger Art Atheism Atheist Attitude Awakening Awareness Balance Belief Birth Blame Bliss Brotherhood Buddhism Business Change Character Charity Childhood Children Christ Church Conflict Consciousness Country Creation Criticism Desire Destiny Devil Devotion Difficulty Discipline Dogma Doubt Duty Earth Effort Ego Egoism Energy Evil Failing Faith Fate Feelings Fighting Forgiveness Freedom Giving Giving Up Glory God Grace Greatness Greed Growth Hard Work Hate Hatred Health Heart Heaven Hell Helping Others Hinduism House Human Body Humanity Hurt Husband Idolatry Ignorance Imagination Imperfection Independence Injury Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Jesus Joy Justice Karma Killing Krishna Language Laziness Liberation Liberty Life Loss Love Lust Lying Manifestation Marriage Materialism Math Meditation Mercy Morality Motivational quotes Mountain Pain Passion Past Patience Perfection Perseverance Personality Philosophy Pleasure Positive Power Praise Prayer Pride Progress Prophet Purity Purpose Quality Rain Reading Reality Religion Responsibility Risk Running Sacrifice Salvation School Scripture Selfishness Silence Sin Sincerity Slavery Sleep Son Sorrow Soul Spirituality Strength Struggle Study Success Suffering Teaching Time Today Training Understanding Unity Universe Vedanta Virtue Vision Waiting Water Weakness Wealth Welfare Wife Winning Work Out Worship Writing Yoga

Those that only take a nibble here and a nibble there will never attain anything ... Those who really want to be yogis must give up, once and for all, this nibbling at things. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your

Those that only take a nibble here and a nibble there will never attain anything ... Those who really want to be yogis must give up, once and for all, this nibbling at things. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea.

Swami Vivekananda

Motivational, Dream, Giving Up

Swami Vivekananda (2012). “Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)”, p.55, Jazzybee Verlag

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

Swami Vivekananda

Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.14, editionNEXT.com

However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite.

Swami Vivekananda

Inspirational, Motivational, Blow

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.74, editionNEXT.com

Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.

Swami Vivekananda

Inspirational, Motivational, Firsts

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2031, Manonmani Publishers

Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the world. It is fear that is the greatest of all superstitions. It is fear that is the cause of all our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment. Therefore, "arise, awake and stop not until the goal is reached.

Swami Vivekananda

Motivational, Faith, Goal

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1228, Manonmani Publishers

Do you have the belief in you to move on, even when the whole world is against you, with swords in their hands?

Swami Vivekananda

Motivational, Moving, Hands

There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion 'I am God' cannot be made with regard to the sense-world.

Swami Vivekananda

Inspirational, Motivational, World

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2245, Manonmani Publishers

I am one of the proudest men ever born, but let me tell you frankly, it is not for myself, but on account of my ancestry. The more I have studied the past, the more I have looked back, more and more has this pride come to me, and it has given me the strength and courage of conviction, raised me up from the dust of the earth, and set me working out that great plan laid out by those great ancestors of ours.

Swami Vivekananda

Motivational, Pride, Men

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.266, Advaita Ashrama

Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind; therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.

Swami Vivekananda

Inspirational, Motivational, Astrology

Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.152, Vivekananda Kendra

Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth-Brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from God.

Swami Vivekananda

Motivational, Inspiring, Heart

"Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

If you have not even a little imagination, you are simply a brute. So you must not lower your ideal, neither are you to lose sight of practicality. We must avoid the two extremes.... You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality.

Swami Vivekananda

Motivational, Sight, Two

Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die.

Swami Vivekananda

Inspirational, Motivational, Divinity

Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.86, SkyLight Paths Publishing

A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.

Swami Vivekananda

Inspirational, Motivational, Heart

"Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work - this is the only way. Go on; remember - patience and purity and courage and steady work. . . . So long as you are pure, and true to your principles, you will never fail.

Swami Vivekananda

Motivational, Patience, Perseverance

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2061, Manonmani Publishers

Be strong, get beyond all superstitions, and be free.

Swami Vivekananda

Inspirational, Motivational, Strong

Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.156, Vivekananda Kendra

The truths of Upanishadas are before you. Take them up, live up to them, and the salvation of Bharat will be at hand.

Swami Vivekananda

Motivational, Hands, Salvation

Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism.

Swami Vivekananda

Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.6, editionNEXT.com

Advaita is the only system that gives us complete control over ourselves, takes off all dependence and its associated superstitions, thus making us brave to suffer, brave to do, and in the long run, attain to absolute freedom.

Swami Vivekananda

Motivational, Running, Long

God is present in every Jiva; there is no other God besides that. Who serves Jiva serves God indeed.

Swami Vivekananda

Motivational, Serving God

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.279, Advaita Ashrama

Each one of you has a glorious future if you dare believe me. Have a tremendous faith in yourselves, like the faith I had when I was I was young... Have that faith, each one of you, in yourself - that eternal power is lodged in every soul - and you will revive the whole of India.

Swami Vivekananda

Motivational, Believe, Soul

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1212, Manonmani Publishers

As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this universe.

Swami Vivekananda

Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

"Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

Neither numbers nor powers nor wealth nor learning nor eloquence nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one word, anubhuti, realisation. Let there be a dozen such lion-souls in each country, lions who have broken their own bonds, who have touched the Infinite, whose whole soul is gone to Brahman, who care neither for wealth nor power nor fame, and these will be enough to shake the world.

Swami Vivekananda

Inspirational, Motivational, Country

Swami Vivekananda (1996). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

Nature, body, mind go to death, not we. We neither go nor come. The man Vivekananda is in nature, is born and dies. But the Self we see as Vivekananda is never born and never dies. It is the eternal and unchangeable Reality.

Swami Vivekananda

Inspirational, Motivational, Reality

"Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

Let each one of us pray day and night for the downtrodden millions who are held fast by poverty, priestcraft, and tyranny. Pray day and night for them. I care more to preach religion to them than to the high and the rich.

Swami Vivekananda

Motivational, Night, Care

Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.224, SkyLight Paths Publishing

I love my nation, I cannot see you degraded, weakened any more than you are now. Therefore I am bound for your sake and for truth's to cry, "Hold!" and to raise my voice against this degradation of my race. Give up these weakening mysticism and be strong.

Swami Vivekananda

Motivational, Strong, Giving Up

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1143, Manonmani Publishers

You May Also Like: