Swami Vivekananda Quotes (507+)

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.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

The moment I gave up the external search, I found the God within.

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

There is no limit to the powers of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.