Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.