Swami Vivekananda Quotes
Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda was an Indian monk and philosopher. Their most powerful quotes on life, success and human nature are collected here for daily inspiration and reflection.
"All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life."
-- Swami Vivekananda"All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak."
-- Swami Vivekananda"Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals."
-- Swami Vivekananda"Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show."
-- Swami Vivekananda"I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve."
-- Swami Vivekananda"The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all."
-- Swami Vivekananda"All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind."
-- Swami Vivekananda"Each work has to pass through these stages: ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance."
-- Swami Vivekananda"So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire."
-- Swami Vivekananda"There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point."
-- Swami Vivekananda"Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles."
-- Swami Vivekananda"Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now."
-- Swami Vivekananda"If I love myself despite my infinite faults, how can I hate anyone at the glimpse of a few faults."
-- Swami Vivekananda"Who is helping you, don't forget them. Who is loving you, don't hate them. Who is believing you, don't cheat them."
-- Swami Vivekananda"Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else."
-- Swami Vivekananda"We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise."
-- Swami Vivekananda"A fool may buy all the books in the world... but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to."
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Swami Vivekananda was an Indian monk and philosopher. Their most powerful quotes on life, success and human nature are collected here for daily inspiration and reflection.
One of Swami Vivekananda's most widely shared quotes is: "Don't look back—forward!".
On success, Swami Vivekananda said: "Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.".
On wisdom, Swami Vivekananda said: "The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.".
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