Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Quotes about life

Strength is Life, Weakness is Death. Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death. Love is Life, Hatred is Death.

Swami Vivekananda

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Swami Vivekananda

Quotes on success

In a day, when you don’t come across any problems – you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.

Swami Vivekananda

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Swami Vivekananda

Quotes for students

Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.

Swami Vivekananda

Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.

Swami Vivekananda

Quotes on education

Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.

Swami Vivekananda

Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.

Swami Vivekananda

A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to.

Swami Vivekananda