All Time Famous Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) was an influential Indian Hindu monk who played a key role in introducing Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world. Born as Narendranath Datta in Kolkata, he became a disciple of the mystic Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. In 1893, Vivekananda gained international acclaim for his address at the World’s Parliament of Religions in Chicago, emphasizing universal tolerance and the acceptance of all religions. He founded the Ramakrishna Mission in 1897, dedicated to humanitarian service. Vivekananda’s teachings centered on individual development, self-realization, and service to humanity. Despite his untimely death in 1902, his legacy endures, inspiring people worldwide with his message of spiritual unity and universal brotherhood.

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

1. “Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.”
— Swami Vivekananda

2. “Arise, awake, stop not until your goal is achieved.”
— Swami Vivekananda

3. “Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.”
— Swami Vivekananda

4. “The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.”
— Swami Vivekananda

5. “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, and 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 that is way great spiritual giants are produced.”
— Swami Vivekananda

6. “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

7. “Anything that makes weak – physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.”
— Swami Vivekananda

8. “In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart. ”
— Swami Vivekananda

9. “Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be; if you think yourself strong, you will be.”
— Swami Vivekananda

10. “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.”
— Swami Vivekananda

11. “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

12. “Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.”
— Swami Vivekananda

13. “Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life. ”
— Swami Vivekananda

14. “Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.”
— Swami Vivekananda

15. “Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. The character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.”
— Swami Vivekananda

16. “You can not believe in God until you believe in yourself.”
— Swami Vivekananda

17. “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

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

19. “Each work has to pass through these stages: ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.”
— Swami Vivekananda

20. “The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain – and the whole world is at your feet.”
— Swami Vivekananda

21. “Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.”
— Swami Vivekananda

22. “They alone live, who live for others.”
— Swami Vivekananda

23. “The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.”
— Swami Vivekananda

24. “All powers are within you, you can do anything and everything.”
— Swami Vivekananda

25. “Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.”
— Swami Vivekananda

26. “Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.”
— Swami Vivekananda

27. “Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.”
— Swami Vivekananda

28. “Don’t look back – forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring,and infinite patience – then alone can great deeds be accomplished”
— Swami Vivekananda

29. “The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.”
— Swami Vivekananda

30. “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.”
— Swami Vivekananda

31. “The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.”
— Swami Vivekananda

32. “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 temple.”
— Swami Vivekananda

33. “The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.”
— Swami Vivekananda

34. “Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.”
— Swami Vivekananda

35. “Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.”
— Swami Vivekananda

36. “The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.”
— Swami Vivekananda

37. “I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.”
— Swami Vivekananda

38. “Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.”
— Swami Vivekananda

39. “Strength is life, Weakness is death.”
— Swami Vivekananda

40. “Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.”
— Swami Vivekananda

41. “This universe is the wreckage of the infinite on the shores of the finite.”
— Swami Vivekananda

42. “The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.”
— Swami Vivekananda

43. “We reap what we sow we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind? We make our own destiny.”
— Swami Vivekananda

44. “All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love’s sake, because it is law of life, just as you breathe to live.”
— Swami Vivekananda

45. “However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite.”
— Swami Vivekananda

46. “Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.”
— Swami Vivekananda

47. “Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.”
— Swami Vivekananda

48. “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

49. “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.”
— Swami Vivekananda

50. “All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.”
— Swami Vivekananda

51. “Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.”
— Swami Vivekananda

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

53. “All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.”
— Swami Vivekananda

54. “The will is not free – it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect – but there is something behind the will which is free.”
— Swami Vivekananda

55. “Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!”
— Swami Vivekananda

56. “Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is!”
— Swami Vivekananda

57. “Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood.”
— Swami Vivekananda

58. “Service to man is service to god.”
— Swami Vivekananda

59. “We are what our thoughts have made us.”
— Swami Vivekananda

60. “Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness. Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world.”
— Swami Vivekananda

61. “Freedom can never be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself.”
— Swami Vivekananda

62. “Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.”
— Swami Vivekananda

63. “Strength is Life, Weakness is Death. Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death. Love is Life, Hatred is Death.”
— Swami Vivekananda

64. “You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains.”
— Swami Vivekananda

65. “The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita.”
— Swami Vivekananda

66. “My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.”
— Swami Vivekananda

67. “Thoughts are living things – they travel far.”
— Swami Vivekananda

68. “Purity, perseverance, and energy – these three I want.”
— Swami Vivekananda

69. “Cowards never win victories. We have to fight fear and troubles and ignorance if we expect them to flee before us.”
— Swami Vivekananda

70. “Music alone can take you to the Highest!”
— Swami Vivekananda

71. “He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind – that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.”
— Swami Vivekananda

72. “The seeker’s silence is the loudest form of prayer.”
— Swami Vivekananda

73. “Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.”
— Swami Vivekananda

74. “I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. I am the Pure and Blessed One. We must reject all thoughts that assert to the contrary.”
— Swami Vivekananda

75. “Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the senses and control the mind. Bear every misery without even knowing that you are miserable. Think of nothing but spiritual freedom.”
— Swami Vivekananda

76. “Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin.”
— Swami Vivekananda

77. “To work with undaunted energy! What fear! Who is powerful enough to thwart you.”
— Swami Vivekananda

78. “Everything will come right if you are pure and sincere. We want hundreds like you bursting upon society and bringing new life and vigor of the spirit wherever they go.”
— Swami Vivekananda

79. “Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.”
— Swami Vivekananda

80. “Be strong, my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Gita. These are bold words; but I have to say them, for I love you. I know where the shoe pinches.”
— Swami Vivekananda

81. “A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.”
— Swami Vivekananda

82. “Even the least work done for others awakens the power within; even thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the heart the strength of a lion.”
— Swami Vivekananda

83. “Marriage and sex and money the only living devils.”
— Swami Vivekananda

84. “One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom.”
— Swami Vivekananda

85. “Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom.”
— Swami Vivekananda

86. “The more we grow in Love, Virtue and Holiness, the more we see Love, Virtue and Holiness outside.”
— Swami Vivekananda

87. “A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water; so a man ought to live in the world – his heart to God and his hands to work.”
— Swami Vivekananda

88. “Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.”
— Swami Vivekananda

89. “All these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided.”
— Swami Vivekananda

90. “Take Risks in Your Life If u Win, U Can Lead! If u Lose, U Can Guide!”
— Swami Vivekananda

91. “Be proud that thou art an Indian, and proudly proclaim, “I am an Indian, every Indian is my brother.” Say, “The ignorant Indian, the poor and destitute Indian, the Brahmin Indian, the Pariah Indian, is my brother.””
— Swami Vivekananda

92. “Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory.”
— Swami Vivekananda

93. “Say it with pride we are Hindus.”
— Swami Vivekananda

94. “Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness.”
— Swami Vivekananda

95. “Above all, India is the land of religion.”
— Swami Vivekananda

96. “Never forget that a man is made great and perfect as much by his faults as by his virtues. So we must not seek to rob a nation of its character, even if it could be proved that the character was all faults.”
— Swami Vivekananda

97. “This is the principle of Universal Brotherhood of man with one another, with all life down to the little ants.”
— Swami Vivekananda

98. “All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else.”
— Swami Vivekananda

99. “It may be that I shall find it good to get outside of my body – to cast it off like a disused garment. But I shall not cease to work! I shall inspire men everywhere, until the world shall know that it is one with God.”
— Swami Vivekananda

100. “Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity.”
— Swami Vivekananda

101. “If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that.”
— Swami Vivekananda

102. “See Christ, then you are a Christian; all else is talk.”
— Swami Vivekananda

103. “A Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten.”
— Swami Vivekananda

104. “Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.”
— Swami Vivekananda

105. “The whole point is to discipline the mind.”
— Swami Vivekananda

106. “Be a hero. Always say, ‘I have no fear.’ Tell this to everyone – ‘Have no fear.’”
— Swami Vivekananda

107. “Have faith in yourself, all power is in you, be conscious and bring it out.”
— Swami Vivekananda

108. “The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.”
— Swami Vivekananda

109. “Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can. Build your hope on none.”
— Swami Vivekananda

110. “Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all love.”
— Swami Vivekananda

111. “If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished – mountains can be crumbled into atoms.”
— Swami Vivekananda

112. “Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.”
— Swami Vivekananda

113. “Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life.”
— Swami Vivekananda

114. “It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.”
— Swami Vivekananda

115. “We have to practice to become perfect.”
— Swami Vivekananda

116. “The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.”
— Swami Vivekananda

117. “Whatever you think, that you will be.”
— Swami Vivekananda

118. “Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.”
— Swami Vivekananda

119. “My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.”
— Swami Vivekananda

120. “Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.”
— Swami Vivekananda

121. “Christ, Buddha, and Krishna are but waves in the Ocean of Infinite Consciousness that I am!”
— Swami Vivekananda

122. “We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.”
— Swami Vivekananda

123. “The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.”
— Swami Vivekananda

124. “The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.”
— Swami Vivekananda

125. “Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life in you. Even though you know you are going to be killed, fight till you “are killed.” Don’t die of fright. Die fighting. Don’t go down till you are knocked down.”
— Swami Vivekananda

126. “Each soul is potentially divine.”
— Swami Vivekananda

127. “The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.”
— Swami Vivekananda

128. “The fruit falls from the tree when it gets ripe. So wait for the time to come. Do not hurry. Moreover, no one has the right to make others miserable by his foolish acts. Wait, have patience, everything will come right in time.”
— Swami Vivekananda

129. “One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.”
— Swami Vivekananda

130. “Hinduism is the mother of all religions.”
— Swami Vivekananda

131. “Work unto death! I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life comes and goes; wealth, fame, enjoyments are only of a few days. It is better, far better to die on the field of duty, preaching the truth, than to die like a worldly worm. Advance!”
— Swami Vivekananda

132. “The earth is enjoyed by heroes.”
— Swami Vivekananda

133. “The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves.”
— Swami Vivekananda

134. “Do not look back upon what has been done. Go Ahead.”
— Swami Vivekananda

135. “He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.”
— Swami Vivekananda

136. “Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.”
— Swami Vivekananda

137. “Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.”
— Swami Vivekananda

138. “Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.”
— Swami Vivekananda

139. “Music is the highest art and to those who understand, is the highest worship.”
— Swami Vivekananda

140. “Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.”
— Swami Vivekananda

141. “Manifest the divinity within you and everything will be harmoniously arranged around it.”
— Swami Vivekananda

142. “Never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.”
— Swami Vivekananda

143. “What makes you weep, my friend? In you is all power. Summon up your all-powerful nature, O mighty one, and this whole universe will lie at your feet. It is the Self alone that predominates, and not matter.”
— Swami Vivekananda

144. “Charity opens the heart.”
— Swami Vivekananda

145. “Give me few men and women who are pure and selfless and I shall shake the world.”
— Swami Vivekananda

146. “The Kingdom of Heaven is within us. God is within us. He is the Soul of our souls. See Him in your own soul. That is practical religion. That is freedom.”
— Swami Vivekananda

147. “All misery and pain come from attachment.”
— Swami Vivekananda

148. “It is faith that makes a lion of a man.”
— Swami Vivekananda

149. “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

150. “Spirituality is the science of the Soul.”
— Swami Vivekananda

151. “The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control.”
— Swami Vivekananda

152. “Help and not fight. Assimilation and not destruction. Harmony and Peace and not dissension.”
— Swami Vivekananda

153. “Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind.”
— Swami Vivekananda

154. “All great undertakings are achieved through mighty obstacles. Keep up the deepest mental poise. Take not even the slightest notice of what puerile creatures may be saying against you.”
— Swami Vivekananda

155. “Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.”
— Swami Vivekananda

156. “Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake, and find the ideal, the goal.”
— Swami Vivekananda

157. “Truth, purity, and unselfishness wherever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof. Equipped with these, one individual is able to face the whole universe in opposition.”
— Swami Vivekananda

158. “Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality.”
— Swami Vivekananda

159. “The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.”
— Swami Vivekananda

160. “You must keep a strict eye on your health; let everything else be subordinated to that.”
— Swami Vivekananda

161. “Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.”
— Swami Vivekananda

162. “We want the education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one’s own feet.”
— Swami Vivekananda

163. “To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion.”
— Swami Vivekananda

164. “Every one wants to command, and no one wants to obey; and this is owing to the absence of that wonderful brahmacharya system of yore. First, learn to obey. The command will come by itself. Always first learn to be a servant, and then you will be fit to be a master.”
— Swami Vivekananda

165. “Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it.”
— Swami Vivekananda

166. “If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word “fearlessness.”
— Swami Vivekananda

167. “First, believe in the world that there is meaning behind everything.”
— Swami Vivekananda

168. “Only by practice and non-attachment can we conquer the mind.”
— Swami Vivekananda

169. “This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself.”
— Swami Vivekananda

170. “Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.”
— Swami Vivekananda

171. “The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.”
— Swami Vivekananda

172. “So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them.”
— Swami Vivekananda

173. “The greatest sin is to think that you are weak. No one is greater: realize that you are Brahman. Nothing has power except what you give it.”
— Swami Vivekananda

174. “In real meditation you forget the body. You may be cut to pieces and not feel it at all. You feel such pleasure in it. You become so light. This perfect rest we will get in meditation.”
— Swami Vivekananda

175. “The three essentials of Hinduism are belief in God, in the Vedas as revelation, in the doctrine of Karma and transmigration.”
— Swami Vivekananda

176. “You see, no one can teach anybody. The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is teaching. Thus Vedanta says that within man is all knowledge in a boy it is and it requires only an awakening, and that much is the work of a teacher.”
— Swami Vivekananda

177. “We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.”
— Swami Vivekananda

178. “As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.”
— Swami Vivekananda

179. “If you can think that infinite power, infinite knowledge and indomitable energy lie within you, and if you can bring out that power, you also can become like me.”
— Swami Vivekananda

180. “Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.”
— Swami Vivekananda

181. “Purity, patience, and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.”
— Swami Vivekananda

182. “The best guide in life is strength.”
— Swami Vivekananda

183. “When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.”
— Swami Vivekananda

184. “Expansion is life. Love is expansion. Love is therefore the only law of life.”
— Swami Vivekananda

185. “A brave, frank, clean-hearted, courageous and aspiring youth is the only foundation on which the future nation can be built.”
— Swami Vivekananda

186. “Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the race, and the nation must go down.”
— Swami Vivekananda

187. “Come out into the Universe of Light. Everything in the Universe is Yours, stretch out your arms and Embrace it with Love.”
— Swami Vivekananda

188. “The organs are the horses, the mind is the rein, the intellect is the charioteer, the soul is the rider, and the body is the chariot.”
— Swami Vivekananda

189. “This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.”
— Swami Vivekananda

190. “Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the fear in their own minds.”
— Swami Vivekananda

191. “Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.”
— Swami Vivekananda

192. “Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss.”
— Swami Vivekananda

193. “There cannot be friendship without equality.”
— Swami Vivekananda

194. “Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.”
— Swami Vivekananda

195. “Business is business, no child’s play.”
— Swami Vivekananda

196. “Matter is motion outside, mind is motion inside.”
— Swami Vivekananda

197. “I am a Hindu, I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true.”
— Swami Vivekananda

198. “The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future.”
— Swami Vivekananda

199. “The benefits of knowledge can only be realized in practice.”
— Swami Vivekananda

200. “Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.”
— Swami Vivekananda