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 VIVEKANANDAKnow that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the motive power in all evil doing; it is weakness that makes men injure others; it is weakness that makes them manifest what they are not in reality. Let them know what they really are.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.
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Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining, of the mind.
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The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.
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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.
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Man’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
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Never say NO, Never say, ‘I cannot’, for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything.
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They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
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Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.
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Talk to yourself atleast once in a Day.. Otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World.
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Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.
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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.
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You are strong, omnipotent, and omniscient. No matter that you have not expressed it yet, it is in you. All knowledge is in you, all power, all purity, and all freedom-why cannot you express this knowledge? Because you do not believe in it. Believe in it, and it must and will come out.
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Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.
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We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light.
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