Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDAThe past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, you Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide!
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When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.
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He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.
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Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.
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Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.
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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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If you have knowledge and see a man weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and help him if you can. He must grow.
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The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves.
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None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.
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I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher. That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.
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Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.
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The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.
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Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.
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Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.
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Man’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
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