Indian Quotes

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"Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals."

-- 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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"If I love myself despite my infinite faults, how can I hate anyone at the glimpse of a few faults."

-- Swami Vivekananda

"If I love myself despite my infinite faults, how can I hate anyone at the glimpse of a few faults."

-- 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

"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

"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

"Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts?"

-- Swami Vivekananda

"Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways."

-- Swami Vivekananda

"Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways."

-- 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."

-- 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."

-- Swami Vivekananda

"Don't look back—forward!"

-- Swami Vivekananda

"Don't look back—forward!"

-- Swami Vivekananda

"Man is to become divine by realizing the divine."

-- Swami Vivekananda

"Man is to become divine by realizing the divine."

-- Swami Vivekananda

"Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential."

-- Swami Vivekananda

"Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential."

-- Swami Vivekananda

"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear."

-- Swami Vivekananda

"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear."

-- Swami Vivekananda

"Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy."

-- Swami Vivekananda

"Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy."

-- Swami Vivekananda

"Experience is the only teacher we have."

-- Swami Vivekananda

"Experience is the only teacher we have."

-- Swami Vivekananda