Vivekananda Quotes

“Animals cannot have any high thoughts; nor can the Angels or Devas attain to direct freedom without human birth.”
― Swami Vivekananda

“It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us
Our thoughts make things beautiful
Our thoughts make things ugly
The whole world is in our own minds Learn to see things in the proper light”
― Swami Vivekananda

“Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways
Yet each one can be true”
― Swami Vivekananda

“Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself”
― Swami Vivekananda

“I have two of these spiritual gurus (Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo) whom I did not meet. I also had two living gurus in Jawaharlal Nehru for politics and Dr Radhakrishnan for philosophy. In my spiritual quest, I have had a whole spectrum of spiritual gurus; a Shakta guru who was a Kashmiri pandit, a Vaishnava guru who was an Englishman, a Shaiva guru who was an American, a Sufi guru who was Muslim, a Kriya yoga guru who is from Kerala. So, I have been blessed with a number of gurus and teachings around the world.”
― Karan Singh, An Examined Life: Essays and Reflections by Karan Singh

“In this task of freeing my mind of superstitions,
Vivekananda was of great help to me. The religion that he preached——including his conception of Yogawas based on a rational philosophy, on the Vedanta, and his conception of Vedanta was not antagonistic to, but was based on, scientific principles”
― Subhas Chandra Bose, An Indian Pilgrim

“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”
― Swami Vivekananda

“We reap what we sow
We are the makers of our own fate
None else has the blame
None has the praise”
― Swami Vivekananda

“This is the first lesson to learn be determined not to curse anything outside not to lay the blame upon anyone outside but stand up lay the blame on yourself
You will find that is always true
Get hold of yourself”
― Swami Vivekananda

“Everything can be sacrificed for truth but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything”
― Swami Vivekananda

“All differences in this world are of degree not of kind because oneness is the secret of everything”
― Swami Vivekananda

“I for one thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve”
― Swami Vivekananda

“Do not hate anybody, because that hatred that comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle”
― Swami Vivekananda

“As Romain Rolland summed it up, ‘The Indian nationalist movement smouldered for a long time until Vivekananda’s breath blew the ashes into flame, and erupted violently three years after his death in 1905.’²”
― Makarand Paranjape