Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Biography: Swami Vivekananda is known for his role in introducing Indian philosop... more Biography: Swami Vivekananda is known for his role in introducing Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world. He gained fame through his powerful speech at the 1893 Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago. A key disciple of Ramakrishna, he founded the Ramakrishna Mission, promoting spiritual and social reform in India. less

"When you are doing any work, do not think of anything beyond. Do it as worship""This world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong""You must worship the Self in Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna""The moment you fear, you are nobody""They alone live, who live for others""Learn everything that is good from others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it""All the strength and succor you want is within yourselves""Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders""We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate""Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death""The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India""To be good and to do good - that is the whole of religion""That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral""The only way to bring the Divine light into the world is to lead oneself towards the divine""Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work""The greatest sin is to think yourself weak""Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached""Our duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest ideal, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth""You cannot believe in yourself if you let others do your thinking for you""Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all, love"

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