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.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDANeither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.
More Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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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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Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.
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If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.
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They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
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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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The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.
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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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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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My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.
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Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.
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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.
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Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing “noses on us,” as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. “Self is the Saviour of self, none else.”
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Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.
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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.
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Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!
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Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. The moment you fear, you are nobody. Be a hero. Always say, ‘I have no fear’. Tell this to everybody-‘Have no fear’.
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Your success is not measured in terms of what all you obtained but in term of what you become, how you live and what actions you do. Upon this point reflect well and attain great happiness
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Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.
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Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality.
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Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
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He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.
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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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He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.
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The man who gives way to anger, or hatred, or any other passion, cannot work; he only breaks himself to pieces, and does nothing practical. It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.
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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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It is not that Christ is superior to Allah, not that Allah is everything and Brahma is nothing, but it is the same one whom you call either Brahma or Allah, or Almighty, or by a hundred other names. The names are different but God is one and the same.
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