Swami Vivekananda Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”

“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”

“You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.”

“Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.”

“The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.”

“Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.”

“All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.”

“The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.”

“The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.”