Top 12 Quotes of Swami Vivekananda

• All power is within you, you can do anything and everything. Believe in that; do not believe that you are weak. Stand up and express the divinity within you.

• The human will stands beyond all circumstance. Before it — the strong, gigantic, infinite will and freedom in man — all the powers, even of nature, must bow down, succumb, and become its servants.

• Hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.

• Nothing shall be done in haste. Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.

• Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this Divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal.

• He whose love knows no end, and never stops to consider high or low, has the whole world lying at his feet.

• The sign of life is expansion; we must go out, expand, show life, or degrade, fester, and die.

• Even the least work done for others awakens the power within; even thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the heart the strength of a lion.

• My children the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice. To be good and to do good- that is the whole of religion.

• Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be. By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God, nearer than any prayer. 

• Remain pure always. Please be careful not to  become impure even in thoughts as also in speech and action; always try to do Good to others as far as in your lies.

• No Need of Looking behind. FORWARD ! We want infinite energy, infinite zeal, infinite courage, and infinite patience then only will great things be achieved.