black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.

Swami Vivekananda

This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Blame Determination Inspirational Lesson
We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Responsibility Suffering
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
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
I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion – it is India.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Country Himself Religion World
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
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
Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Men Soul Spirit Substance
The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Accomplishment Anger Greatness Man
All practice or worship is only for taking off this veil. When that will go, you will find that the Sun of Absolute Knowledge is shining in Its own lustre.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Knowledge Practice Shine Sun
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
It is faith that makes a lion of a man.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Faith Inspirational Lion Men One Liner
Shri Ramakrishna use to say, “As Long as I Live, so long do I learn”. That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Death Learning Men Myself
The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Attainment Progress Test
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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Flower God Soul
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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Life Material Meditation Myself Power

The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Swami Vivekananda Quotes