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 VIVEKANANDAThank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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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.
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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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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.
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In whatever name or form they are offered, all these flowers are laid at God’s feet, for He is the one Lord of all, the one Soul of all souls.
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Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.
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Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.
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Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.
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The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much.
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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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Man’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
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What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.
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Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.
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Real love is love for love’s sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.
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It is faith that makes a lion of a man.
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Onward, my brave boys – money or no money – men or no men! Have you love? Have you God? Onward and forward to the breach, you are irresistible.
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