"As soon as we react, we become slaves."
-- Swami Vivekananda"Be brave, be brave! Man dies but once. My disciples must not be cowards."
-- Swami Vivekananda"In a day, when you don't come across any problems—you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path."
-- Swami Vivekananda"Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet."
-- Swami Vivekananda"All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life."
-- Swami Vivekananda"Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death. Love is Life, Hatred is Death."
-- 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"The whole point is to discipline the mind."
-- 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"Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes."
-- 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"Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts?"
-- Swami Vivekananda