Swami Vivekananda Quotes (507+)

You cannot teach a child any more than you can grow a plant. The plant develops its own nature. It also teaches itself, but you can help it to go forward in its own way. What you can do is to sow an aspiration-seed.

Do one thing at a time and while doing it, put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

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.

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.

Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can. Build your hope on none.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

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.

Take risks in your life. If you win, you can lead; if you lose, you can guide.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

Where is this heaven? You have not even the power to see one grain of sand here. Can you see this earth of ours? The earth appears to us to be stationary, and the sun seems to go round us; but if we could get away from our earth, and look down from the sun upon it, we should see that it is moving round the sun in a circle, and that the sun is standing still. So it is with our conceptions of heaven and hell; they are not real, but only human conceptions.

God is merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that His grace will never come.