Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, ‘I will work out the salvation of this woman or child.

Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.

Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.

Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

Have faith in yourself. You people were once the Vedic Rishis. Only, you have come in different forms, that’s all. I see it clear as daylight that you all have infinite power in you. Rouse that up; arise, arise – apply yourselves heart and soul, gird up your loins.

To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it scientifically, slowly, by regular practice, and we must cast off all superstition.

He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.

As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.

My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.

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.