Swami Vivekananda Quotes

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Quotes From Swami Vivekananda

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“Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your

own shoulders, and know that you are the creator

of your own destiny”

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“They alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.”

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“Arise! Awake! And stop not till the goal is

reached.”

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“To be good and to do good - that is the whole of

religion.”

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“Strength is life, Weakness is death.”

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“All the power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in

that; don’t believe that you are weak. Stand up and express the divinity

within you.”

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“What ever you think, that you will be. If you think yourself weak,

weak you will be; if you think yourself strong; strong you will be.”

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“Stand and die in your own strength; if there is any sin in the world, it is

weakness; avoid all weakness, for weakness is sin, weakness is death.”

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“Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor

learning; it is CHARACTER that

cleave through adamantine walls of

difference.”

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“He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The

old religion said that he was an atheist who does not believe in God. The new religion says that he is an

atheist who does not believe in himself.”

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“The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.”

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“Help if you can; if you cannot, fold your hands

and stand by and see things go on. Do not injure, if you cannot

render help.”

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Three things are necessary to make every man great, every nation great:

1. Conviction of the powers of goodness,

2. Absence of jealousy and suspicion,

3. Helping all who are trying to be and do good.

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“Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are,

you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without

going into a single church or a temple.”

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“Misery comes through attachment, not through work.

As soon as we identify ourselves with work we do, we feel miserable; but if we don’t

identify ourselves with it, we do not feel that misery.”

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“Nature wants us to react, to return blow for blow,

cheating for cheating, lie for lie, to hit back with all our might, then it requires a

super divine power not to hit back, to keep control, to be

unattached.”

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“Always first learn to be a servant, and then you

will be fit to be a master. Avoid jealousy, and you will do great works that

are yet to be done.”

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“You must have an iron will if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce

the mountains.”

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“Take up one idea, make that one idea your life, think of it, dream of it, live of it, let the brain, muscle,

nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea and just leave

every other idea alone. This is the way great spiritual giants are

produced, others are mere talking machines.”

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“Your country requires heroes; be heroes; your

duty is to go on working, and then everything will

follow of itself.”

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