"What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin."
Read quote
4 likes
Quote collection
Swami Vivekananda quotes (page 51 of 86)
1.7K quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"Through the grace of the Almighty Power, it is sure to manifest itself in time."
Read quote
4 likes
"The Church tries to fit Christ into it, not the Church into Christ."
Read quote
4 likes
"See here, how fresh is the air, there is the Ganga, and the Sadhus (holy men) are practising meditation, and holding lofty talks! While the moment you will go to Calcutta, you will be thinking of nasty stuff."
Read quote
4 likes
"The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert."
Read quote
4 likes
"The natural ambition of woman is through marriage to climb up, leaning upon a man; but those days are gone. You shall be great without the help of any man, just as you are."
Read quote
4 likes
"Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death."
Read quote
4 likes
"If the whole responsibility is thrown upon our own shoulders, we shall be at our highest and best; when we have nobody to grope towards, no devil to lay our blame upon, no Personal God to carry our burdens, when we are alone responsible, then we shall rise to our highest and best. I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil."
Read quote
4 likes
"The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature."
Read quote
4 likes
"In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless."
Read quote
4 likes
"Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing, so long as he does not injure others."
Read quote
4 likes
"Be strong! Don't talk of ghosts and devils."
Read quote
4 likes
"Two things control man's character; Strength and Pity"
Read quote
4 likes
"No matter what that makes elastic - sharply, intellectually and sincerely, keep at bay it as noxious waste."
Read quote
4 likes
"Some imaginations help to break the bondage of the rest. The whole universe is imagination, but one set of imaginations will cure another set. Those that tell us that there is sin and sorrow and death in the world are terrible. But the other set - thou art holy, there is God, there is no pain - these are good, and help to break the bondage of the others. The highest imagination that can break all the links of the chain is that of the Personal God."
Read quote
4 likes
"With the Holy Mother as the centre of inspiration, a Math is to be established on the eastern bank of the Ganga. . . . On the other side of the Ganga a big plot of land will be acquired, where unmarried girls or Brahmacharini widows will live; devout married women will also be allowed to stay now and then. Men will have no concern with this Math."
Read quote
4 likes
"The book one must read to learn natural sciences is the book of nature. The book from which to learn religion is your own mind and heart."
Read quote
4 likes
"You all know that certain things are necessary to make a religion. First of all, there is the book. The power of the book is simply marvellous! Whatever it be, the book is the centre round which human allegiance gathers. Not one religion is living today but has a book. With all its rationalism and tall talk, humanity still clings to the books. In your country every attempt to start a religion without a book has failed. In India sects rise with great success, but within a few years they die down, because there is no book behind them. So in every other country."
Read quote
4 likes
"Service to man is service to god"
Read quote
4 likes
"Move onward and carry into practice."
Read quote
4 likes