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Swami Vivekananda Quotes about Progress

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True progress is slow but sure.

True progress is slow but sure.

Swami Vivekananda
Progress
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2035, Manonmani Publishers

The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

Swami Vivekananda
Progress, Treatment, Thermometers
Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.

Swami Vivekananda
Progress, Path, Suits
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.167, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.

Swami Vivekananda
Progress, Tests, Renunciation
Swami Vivekananda, Swami Saradananda (1964). “Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda”

None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Perfect, Progress
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.7, editionNEXT.com

We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth

Swami Vivekananda
Errors, Progress

We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.

Swami Vivekananda
Past, Achievement, Progress
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1118, Manonmani Publishers

One atom in this universe cannot move without dragging the whole world along with it. There cannot be any progress without the whole world following in the wake, and it is becoming every day dearer that the solution of any problem can never be attained on racial, or national, or narrow grounds.

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Moving, Progress, Atoms
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1182, Manonmani Publishers

Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves - art, literature, science, religion.

Swami Vivekananda
Art, Civilization, Progress

Chemistry ceases to improve when one element is found from which all others are deductible. Physics ceases to progress when one force is found of which all others are manifestations. So religion ceases to progress when unity is reached, which is the case with Hinduism.

Swami Vivekananda
Unity, Progress, Elements

What we want is progress, development, realisation.

Swami Vivekananda
Progress, Development, Want
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.32, editionNEXT.com

According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.

Swami Vivekananda
Progress, Humans, Human Progress
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2250, Manonmani Publishers

Do you think there is any other means of achieving progress except through Rajas?

Swami Vivekananda
Mean, Thinking, Progress
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3031, Manonmani Publishers

How can there be any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge?

Swami Vivekananda
Country, Progress, Spread
Swami Vivekananda, Swami Saradananda (1964). “Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda”

The Indian mythology has a theory of cycles, that all progression is in the form of waves.

Swami Vivekananda
Progress, Wave, Form
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.14, editionNEXT.com

It is the duty of every person to contribute in the development and progress of India.

Swami Vivekananda
Progress, India, Development

Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well being, and indeed the preservation of the social system.

Swami Vivekananda
Change, Law, Progress
Swami Vivekananda (2001). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

We shall progress inch by inch.

Swami Vivekananda
Progress, Inches
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1984, Manonmani Publishers

The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature.

Swami Vivekananda
Mean, Race, Progress
Swami Vivekananda (2014). “Raja Yoga”, p.11, Lulu Press, Inc

The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too.

Swami Vivekananda
Mean, Progress, World
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2921, Manonmani Publishers

We know there is no progress in a straight line.

Swami Vivekananda
Progress, Lines, Knows
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.379, Manonmani Publishers

It is the nature of the brute to remain where he is (not to progress); it is the nature of man to seek good and avoid evil; it is the nature of God to seek neither, but just to be eternally blissful. Let us be God!

Swami Vivekananda
Men, Evil, Progress
Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Selections from Swami Vivekananda”

Just as the body has its progress and decadence, so also has the mind, and, therefore, the mind is not the soul, because the soul can neither decay nor degenerate.

Swami Vivekananda
Soul, Mind, Progress
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.102, editionNEXT.com

All manifest life seems to require a period of sleep, of calm, in which to gain added strength, renewed vigour, for the next manifestation, or awakening to activity. Thus is the march of all progress, of all manifest life - in waves, successive waves, [of] activity and repose. Waves succeed each other in an endless chain of progression.

Swami Vivekananda
Sleep, Progress, Awakening

The progress of the world through all its evils making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely.

Swami Vivekananda
Evil, Progress, World
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2100, Manonmani Publishers

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