In the words of Swami Vivekananda:
Every idea that strengthens you must be taken up and every thought that weakens you must be rejected.
If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.
When we use our imagination properly it is our greatest friend; it goes belyond reason and is the only light that takes us everywhere.
Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.
Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.
Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.
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.
It is not God's fault. It is our fault that we suffer. Whatever we sow we reap.
You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving.
Pay no attention whatsoever to newspaper nonsense or criticism. Be sincere and do your duty. Everything will come all right. Truth must triumph.
Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion - it is India.
Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom - physical, mental, and spiritual - and help others to do so.
Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.
A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.
Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.
We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.
Never producing pain by thought, word, and deed, in any living being, is what is called Ahimsâ, non-injury.
The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.
The Gita is like a bouquet composed of the beautiful flowers of spiritual truths collected from the Upanishads.
We have to keep the body in good health; we have to take care of what we eat and drink, and what we do.
So long as even a single dog in my country is without food, my whole religion will be to feed it.
Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals, But because of the inactivities of the good people.
When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.
Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.
Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower.
Any time you attempt to make a God beyond Christ, you murder the whole thing. God alone can worship God.
Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.
The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.
Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the fear in their own minds.
If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions.
Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it.
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
The Pariahs, our fellow beings, ought to be educated by the higher castes.
A Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten.
Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Purity, patience and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all love.
Philosophy insists that there is a joy which is absolute, which never changes.
According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege.
When I asked God for strength, He gave me difficult situations to face.
Never turn back to see the result of what you have done. Give all to the Lord and go on, and think not of it.
There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation.
The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being.
The secret of image - worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
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.
Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation.
Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.
The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.
It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment.
Don't look back—forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience—then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause.
Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.
The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much.
You will be nearer to Heaven through foot ball than through study of Gita.
Christians are always wanting God to give them something. They appear as beggars before the throne of the Almighty.
Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain — and the whole world is at your feet.
If the Absolute becomes limited by the mind, It is no more Absolute; It has become finite.
Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can. Build your hope on none.
That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.
The way to God is the opposite to that of the world. And to few, very few, are given to have God and mammon at the same time.
The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
The three essentials of Hinduism are belief in God, in the Vedas as revelation, in the doctrine of Karma and transmigration.
Everything that occupies space has form. The formless can only be infinite.
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