Quotes from Swami Vivekananda

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it!

Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause.

Love conquers in the long run. It won't do to become impatient - wait, wait - patience is bound to give success. . . .

If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that.

The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves

This is the line of life, this is the line of growth, and this is the line of well-being in India - to follow the track of religion.

This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion.

Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.

When I asked God for Brains and Brawn, He gave me Puzzles in life to Solve.

The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.

You have heard that Christ said, 'My words are spirit and they are life'. So are my words spirit and life; they will burn their way into your brain and you will never get away from them!

For one thing we may be grateful: this life is not eternal.

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

He who conquers self conquers all.

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.

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.

There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.

Experience is the only teacher we have.

The Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles.

The guide, the guru, the leader, the teacher, has passed away; the boy, the student, the servant, is left behind.

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.

Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life.