Swami Vivekananda Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Swami Vivekananda quotes, Swami Vivekananda sayings, and Swami Vivekananda proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be. Swami Vivekananda
Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mothers of great deeds. Swami Vivekananda
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life-think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. Swami Vivekananda
You cannot believe in god until you believe in yourself. Swami Vivekananda
Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be. Swami Vivekananda
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. Swami Vivekananda
You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains. Swami Vivekananda
One must work as the dictate comes from within, and then if it is right and good, the society is bound to veer round, perhaps centuries after one is dead and gone. Swami Vivekananda
One must work as the dictate comes from within, and then if it is right and good, the society is bound to veer round, perhaps centuries after one is dead and gone. Swami Vivekananda
Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day of a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness. Swami Vivekananda
Each work has to pass through these stages-ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Swami Vivekananda
Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not in believing, but in being and becoming. Swami Vivekananda
Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe. Swami Vivekananda
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. Swami Vivekananda
Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be. Swami Vivekananda
Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mothers of great deeds. Swami Vivekananda
Never say, 'No', never say 'I cannot', for you are infinite, even time and space are nothing compared with your nature. You can do anything and everything, you are almighty. Swami Vivekananda
Supreme oneness is the rationale of all ethics and morality. Ethics cannot be derived from the mere sanction to any personage. Some eternal principle of truth has the sanction of ethics. Where is the eternal sanction to be found except in the only infinite reality that exists in you and us and in all, in the self, in the soul? Swami Vivekananda
Ethics come from the attainment of freedom, renunciation, which comes only when the individual attain a superior strength. Swami Vivekananda
Arise! Awake! Stop not till the goal is reached. Swami Vivekananda
Whatever you think, you will be. If you will think yourself weak, weak you will be, if you think you are strong, strong you will be. Swami Vivekananda
The secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice. to be good and do good and do good. Swami Vivekananda
Real love is love for love's sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation. Swami Vivekananda
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life—think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. Swami Vivekananda
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Swami Vivekananda
Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be. Swami Vivekananda
Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mothers of great deeds. Swami Vivekananda
Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves. Swami Vivekananda
Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mothers of great deeds. Swami Vivekananda
Purity, patience and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all love. Swami Vivekananda