Quotes from Swami Vivekananda

Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.

The earth is enjoyed by heroes"—this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, "I have no fear.

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.

I stand for truth. Truth will never ally itself with falsehood. Even if all the world should be against me, Truth must prevail in the end.

The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.

All these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided.

It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.

Pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are ...but unless you realize the Truth, there is no freedom.

We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth.

We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth

What do you gain in heaven? You become gods, drink nectar, and get rheumatism. There is less misery there than on earth, but also less truth.

Soft-brained people, weak-minded, chicken-hearted , cannot find the truth. One has to be free, and as broad as the sky.

None will be able to resist truth and love and sincerity. Are you sincere? Unselfish even unto death, and loving? Then fear not, not even death.

The road to salvation is through truth.

The correct meaning of the statement The Vedas are beginningless and eternal is that the law or truth revealed by them is permanent and changeless.

One who leans on others cannot serve the God of Truth.

Pay no attention whatsoever to newspaper nonsense or criticism. Be sincere and do your duty. Everything will come all right. Truth must triumph.

Satisfied is no test of truth. Actuality is steadily far from idiosyncratic secure.

It is fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven in a moment "The earth is enjoyed by heroes" - this is the unfailing truth.

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, 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, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced.

Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

whatever you think that you will be. if you think yourself weak,weak you will be; if you think yourself strong,you will be