QUOTES - SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

SWAMI   VIVEKANANDA

1.      Strike off thy fetters, bonds that bind thee down

Know that a slave is a slave, caressed or whipped

For fetters though of gold are not less strong to bind

Then off with them sanyasin bold.

2.      A lotus comes from the mud but there is no mud to it.

3.      Wherever you prove to yourself that you are the greatest.

4.      Have you failed thousand times? No problem. Try once again.

5.      If people say impossible, take it as a challenge.

6.      The effect is here and the cause is here. Take the blame on your own shoulders. Don’t go about throwing mud at others. For all the faults you suffer from you are the sole and the only cause.

7.      Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.

8.      Never imitate.

9.      The good that you are doing to the society is as good as the money deposited in the bank. The return will come one day.

10.  Feel from the ground and go up and up in your life. Whenever you take the next step see that the previous step is strong enough.

11.  He will be a ruler who serves well.

12.  Expansion is life, contraction is death.

13.  Strength is life, weakness is death.

14.  Know from the least born.

15.  Saints die. Sinners die. Kings die. Beggars die. We are all going to die. But this ever thirst to live in this world is called mayo.

16.  Desire is never satisfied by the enjoyment of a desire. The moment one desire is fulfilled another desire takes birth. It is a chain reaction.

17.  Progress in this world means multiplication of desires.

18.  Work is worship.

19.  Duty when acute we call it disease. If it is chronic we throw flowers, give high sounding, people rob, and many things can be done on that.

20.  Experience is the highest teacher.

21.  I want man making religion.

22.  He who does not believe himself is an atheist.

23.  The world is need of many things. You choose one path. Think it. Discuss it. And dedicate your life to it. You will become a great man.

24.  Unless you respect a man who is visible to you, how can I believe that you can respect god who is invisible to you.

25.  Our plights are due to our ignorance.

26.  Idol worship is only for beginners.

27.  Thou art that.

28.  Nobody can bring you peace except you, yourself.

29.  Awake! Arise! And stop not till the goal is reached.

30.  There is no greatness in doing a great thing in a great way but there lies greatness in doing a small thing in a great way.