Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDATake 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.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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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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As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.
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The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.
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The attempt is to kill the false “I”, so that the real “I”, the Lord, will reign. “I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me,” say the Hebrew scriptures.
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The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
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He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.
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Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.
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They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
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Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.
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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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Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming what it believes.
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Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
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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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Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.
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Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!
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