Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

1. 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.

2. They alone live who live for others, rest are more dead then alive.

3. Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

4. To be good and to do good- that is the whole of religion.

5. Strength is life, Weakness is death.


6. All the power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that; don't believe that you are weak. Stand up and express the divinity within you.

7. Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be; if you think yourself strong; strong you will be.

8. Stand and die in your strength; if there is any sin in the world, it is weakness; avoid all weakness, for weakness is sin, weakness is death.

9.  Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.

10. Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading book, without going into a single church or temple.