Swami Vivekananda

Have faith in yourself, all power is in you, be conscious and bring it out.

Swami Vivekananda

Have faith in yourselves, and stand up on that faith and be strong; that is what we need.

Swami Vivekananda

He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.

Swami Vivekananda

He who knows even how to prepare a smoke properly, knows also how to meditate. And he who cannot cook well cannot be a perfect sannyasin. Unless cooking is performed with a pure mind and concentration, the food is not palatable.

Swami Vivekananda

I am indebted to my mother for the efflorescence of my knowledge.

Swami Vivekananda

I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher. That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.

Swami Vivekananda

I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense.

Swami Vivekananda

I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I will point out that I am a greater reformer than any one of them. They want to reform only little bits. I want root-and-branch reform.

Swami Vivekananda

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

Swami Vivekananda

If a man, day and night, thinks he is miserable, low and nothing, nothing he becomes. If you say yea, yea, “I am, I am”, so shall you be;

Swami Vivekananda