Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual Teacher Indian 1863 – 1902

Hindu monk; brought Vedanta and yoga to Western audiences.

390 quotes

"The greatest religion is the religion of wisdom."
Wisdom
"The world is the manifestation of the divine."
"The greatest truth is the unity of all existence."
Philosophy
"The moment you believe in yourself, you can achieve anything."
"The greatest religion is the religion of humanity."
Kindness
"The world needs the light of knowledge."
Education
"The greatest religion is the religion of peace."
Peace
"The moment you surrender your ego, you find freedom."
Freedom
"The greatest religion is the religion of justice."
Justice
"The moment I have realized the worth of my life is when I learn to say 'no' to things that drain my energy."
Life
"Anything that makes you weak physically, intellectually and spiritually is poison for you; it is not food."
Health
"The great truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence."
Truth
"Ask and you shall receive. Seek and you shall find. Knock and the door shall be opened unto you."
Faith
"The world is the gymnasium in which we exercise our virtues."
Education
"Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being?"
Philosophy
"They alone live who live for others; the rest are more dead than alive."
Love
"Arise, awake, and stop not until the goal is reached."
Motivation
"The moment a man stands up with a spiritual ideal and wants to make his life in accordance with it, he becomes a power."
Power
"Help and not fight. Assimilation and not Destruction. Harmony and Peace and not Dissension."
Peace
"Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity within."
Wisdom
"Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond."
Courage
"Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way."
Kindness
"The great religion of the world have all come from great men; and the greatest truths have always come from the mouths of great men."
Knowledge
"All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything."
Philosophy
"The moment our ideals become larger than our talents, the moment our ambitions are greater than our abilities, we have a pull toward the future."
Dreams
"When the flower blooms, bees come uninvited. When there is nectar, the bees will come."
Success
"Each man must work out his own salvation."
Perseverance
"The great danger in the world is that people are talking too much and doing too little."
Work
"Freedom is not to be obtained by weaklings and it is impossible for a man to the born, if he is not to be free."
Freedom
"The moment I have realized the worth of my personal life lies in service to humanity."
Leadership