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.

Swami Vivekananda

The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is, therefore, Mukti – freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from death and misery.

Swami Vivekananda

Perfection is not to be attained, it is already within us.

Swami Vivekananda

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.

Swami Vivekananda

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Swami Vivekananda

My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation. Out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem like lions.

Swami Vivekananda

Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

Swami Vivekananda

The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain – and the whole world is at your feet.

Swami Vivekananda

Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.

Swami Vivekananda

Let us work without desire for name or fame or rule over others. Let us be free from the triple bonds of lust, greed of gain, and anger. And this truth is with us!

Swami Vivekananda

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Swami Vivekananda

Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.

Swami Vivekananda

Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.

Swami Vivekananda

Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.

Swami Vivekananda

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

Swami Vivekananda

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

Swami Vivekananda

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Swami Vivekananda

Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.

Swami Vivekananda