Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Never forget the glory of human nature! We are the greatest god.. Christs and Buddhas are but waves in the boundless ocean which I AM.  

If the Student thinks he is the Spirit, he will be a better Student. If the Lawyer thinks he is the Spirit, he will be a better Lawyer, and so on.  

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.  

A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.  

The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that comes physical help.  

God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted
He Gave Me Everything I Needed.  

A good practice carried to an extreme and worked in accordance with the letter of the law becomes a positive evil.  

The Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of Goodness and Love.  

He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.  

Be Grateful to the Man you help, think of Him as God. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship God by helping our fellow men?  

Do good because it is good to do good. Ask no more.  

The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant.
One who knows is willing to give up his body even for an ant,
because he knows that the body is nothing.  

This universe is the wreckage of the infinite on the shores of the finite.  

God did not give me everything that i wanted. But, He gave me everything that i needed!  

Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.  

By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger  

Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full fledged devotion to God.  

All truth is eternal. Truth is nobodys property no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.  

Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood.  

This World will always continue to be a mixture of Good and Evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to Love even the wrongdoer.