Quotes from Swami Vivekananda

Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.

Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it.

Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.

Know full well that patience is the best means of succeeds.

Purity, perseverance, and energy- these three I want.

Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You must have strict morality.

Help and not fight. Assimilation and not destruction. Harmony and Peace and not dissension.

Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different manifestation of the same thing.

When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.

According to this philosophy, each man consists of three parts - the body, the internal organ or the mind, and behind that, what is called the Atman, the Self.

We want today that bright sun of intellectuality joined with the heart of Buddha, the wonderful infinite heart of love and mercy. This union will give us the highest philosophy.

Philosophy insists that there is a joy which is absolute, which never changes.

Poetry and philosophy will become friends.

India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she will die.

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

Do not say, 'You are bad'; say only, 'You are good', but be better!

Never say NO, Never say, 'I cannot', for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything.

The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.

Have faith in yourself, all power is in you, be conscious and bring it out

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.

Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality.

All power is within you. Believe in that,do not believe that you are weak... Stand up and express the Divinity within you.

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.