Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 60 (1 Mar)

The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the divinity within. You can do anything. You fail only when you do not strive sufficiently to manifest infinite power. As soon as a man or a nation loses faith, death comes.
- The Complete Works, Vol. 8

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 45 (14 Feb)

He who has the slightest desire for worldly pleasures, even a shred of some such craving, will feel frightened at the thought of the path you are going to tread.

 - Swami Vivekanand
The Complete Works, Vol. 6

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 44 (13 Feb)

Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron.

 - Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 1

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 43 (12 Feb)

It is not the receiver that is blessed, but it is the giver.

 - Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 1

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 42 (11 Feb)

Never mind failures; tehy are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them?

 - Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 2

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 41 (10 Feb)

Imitation, cowardly imitation, never makes for progress.

 - Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 3

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 40 (9 Feb)

All the secret of success is there; to pay as much attention to the means as to the end.

 - Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 2

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 39 (8 Feb)

One ounce of practice is worth twenty thousand tons of big talk.

 - Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 3

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 38 (7 Feb)

You know little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.

 - Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 2

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 37 (6 Feb)

Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

 - Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 8

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 36 (5 Feb)

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strenght.

 - Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 2

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 35 (4 Feb)

In eating, dressing, or lying, in singing or playing, in enjoyment or disease, always manifest the highest moral courage. If you can build your character after such an ideal, then a thousand others will follow you.

 - Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 34 (3 Feb)

The more longing grows, the more will the cloud of obstacles be dispelled, and stronger will faith be established.

 - Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 33 (2 Feb)

Truth, purity and unselfishness - wherever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof. Equipped with these, one individual is able to face the whole universe in opposition.

 - Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 4

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 32 (1 Feb)

Purify yourself first, and the world is bound to be purified then.

 - Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 1

Swami Vivekanand Quotation Series - Day 31 (31 Jan)

 The mind incontrolled and unguided will drag us down forever - rend us, kill us; and the mind controlled and guided will save us, free us.

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 6.

Swami Vivekanand Quotes Series - Day 30

 We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet.

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 5

Swami Vivekanand Quotes Series - Day 29

 You have to be practical in all spheres of work. The whole country has been ruined by masses of theories.

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 7

Swami Vivekanand Quotes Series - Day 28

 The history of the world is that of men of faith, men of deep pure character. We need to have three things: the heart to feel, the brain to conceive, the hand to work.

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 6

Swami Vivekanand Quotes Series - Day 27

 Great enterprise, boundless courage, tremendous energy, and above all, perfect obedience - these are the only traits that lead to individual and national regeneration.

- Swami Vivekanand

The Complete Works, Vol. 6.