100+ Swami Vivekananda Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Feeling Intellectual Life
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Hurt Inspirational Intelligence Motivational People
Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Happiness Independence Misery Motivational
Learn to feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one. Throw all other nonsense to the winds. Spit out your actions, good or bad, and never think of them again. What is done is done. Throw off superstition. Have no weakness even in the face of death. Be free.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Action Death Face Learning Thinking Weakness Wind
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

Achievement Growth Life Past Progress
Everyone goes with the flow. But the one who goes against the flow becomes someone remarkable in life.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Flow Inspirational Remarkable
Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Looks Path Spirituality World
The man who gives way to anger, or hatred, or any other passion, cannot work; he only breaks himself to pieces, and does nothing practical. It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Anger Break Men Passion Pieces
Never say NO, Never say, ‘I cannot’, for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Inspirational Power Yourself
By practice men can bring even the heart under control, until it will just beat at will, slowly, or quickly, or almost stop. Nearly every part of the body can be brought under control.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Body Control Heart Men Practice Stop
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

Inspirational Motivational Power Strong Thinking Weakness
You are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the Almighty, Omnipresent, Divine Principle. You may laugh at me now, but the time will come when you will understand. You must. Nobody will be left behind.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

God Laughter Principles Spiritual Yourself
He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Himself Inspirational Struggle Try
There is no other teacher but your own soul.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

One Liner Soul Spiritual Teacher
The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Learning Spirituality Teaching
Whatever you believe, that you will be. If you believe yourselves to be sages, sages you will be tomorrow. There is nothing to obstruct you.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Believe Future Sage
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Astrology Mind Weakness
No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion, which arouses the internal teacher, who helps us to understand things.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Motivational Teacher Teaching Understand
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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Discipline Knowledge Mindset Strength Value
We cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature engine; and indication of any error in the tiny engine leads us to imagine trouble in the huge one.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Mistake See Trouble
Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Ishvara.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Mind Possible Reading Reality
Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Begining Devotion Ideal Necessary Practice Religious
Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Character Habit Hope Man Reform
Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Men Moral Strength Willing
Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Generosity God Imagination Thankful World
Know 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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Men Motivational Power Reality Strength Weakness
The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that comes physical help.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Help Intellectual Strong

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Famous Monk