Quotes Of Swami Vivekananda

[kxramesh]

'If you are poor, work. If you are rich, work. If you are burdened with un-seemingly unfair responsibilities, work. If disappointments come, work. If sorrow overwhelms you and loved ones seem not true, work. If health is threatened, work. When dreams are shattered and hope seems dead, work. Work as if your life is in peril. Its really is. No matter what ails you, work. Work faithfully. Work in faith. Work is the great remedy available for both mental and physical afflictions'

'Neither money pays, nor name, nor fame, nor learning it is character that can cleave through adamantine walls of difficulties'

'Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give: it will come back to you, but do not think of that now, it will come back multiplied by thousand fold: but the attention must not be on that. Yet the power to give, give and there it ends. Ask, therefore, nothing in return: but the more you give, the more will come to you'

'Whenever there is conflict between the heart and the mind, let the heart be followed'

'Reserve unto yourself the power of detaching yourself from everything, how much the soul might yearn for it: however great the pangs of misery you feel if you were going to leave it, still reserve the power of leaving it whenever you want'

'Practise truthfulness. Twelve years of absolute truthfulness in thought, word and deed gives a man what he wills'

'The best thing to give your enemy is forgiveness, to an opponent tolerance, to a friend your heart, to your child a good, to a father difference, to your mother conduct that will make her proud of you, to yourself respect and to all men charity'

'Help if you can. If you can not, fold your hands and stand by and see things go on. Do not injure, if you can not render help'.

[secretman]

Dear Friends,

Do you know on whose name we celebrate our National Youth Day. It is on Greatest Indian Philosopher Swami Vivekananda's Birthday on 12th January.

Here are some more inspiring Quotations of Swami Vivekananda.

'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'.

'Do not be frightened. Awake, be up and doing. Do not stop till you have reached the goal'.

'Your country requires Heroes; Be Heroes! Your duty is to go on working, and then every thing will follow of itself'.

'Arise, Awake and Stop Not till the Goal is reached'.

For more, Visit the site Swami Vivekananda (http://www.vivekananda.org) read 'Quote Of the Day' and his Biography.

Celebrate Your National Youth Day! on 12th January!

Thanks for being with me.

[kxramesh]

Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigour in blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas. Avoid all mystery. There is no mystery in religion. Mystery mongering and superstition are always signs of weakness.

[secretman]

Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.

[toprohan]

Hey Thamx for these wonderful quotes!
I loved these,Keep up the good work.

[supriya123]

Three things are necessary to make every man great, every nation great:

1). Conviction of the power of goodness

2). Absence of jealousy and suspicion

3). Helping all who are trying to be and do good.

-Swami Vivekananda

[supriya123]

Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.

-Swami Vivekananda

[supriya123]

'Any attempt to modernize our women, if it tries to take our women away from that ideal of Sita, is immediate failure, as we see everyday. The women of India must grow and develop in the footprints of Sita, and that is the only way.'

- Sami Vivekananda.

[supriya123]

'Along with other things, our women should acquire the spirit of valour and heroism. In the present day, it has become necessary for them also to learn self defence. See, how grand was the Queen of Jhansi!'

- Swami Vivekananda

[supriya123]

'Religions of the world have become lifeless mockeries. What the world wants is character'.

- Swami Vivekananda.

[kxramesh]

Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. The moment you fear, you are nobody. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the world. It is fear that is the greatest of all superstitions. It is fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment. Therefore, 'Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached'.

[kxramesh]

What makes you weep my friend? In you is all power. Summon up your all-powerful nature. O mighty one, and this is whole universe will lie at your feet. It is the self alone that predominates and not matter.

[kxramesh]

Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in God - this is the secret of greatness. If you have faith in all the three hundred and thirty millions of your mythological gods, and in all the gods which foreigners have now and again introduced into your midst, and still have no faith in yourselves, there is no salvation for you.

[kxramesh]

This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.

[kxramesh]

If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Every fool may become a hero at one time or another. Watch a man do his most common actions; those are indeed the things which will tell you real character of a great man.

[kxramesh]

If a man with an ideal makes a thousand mistakes, I am sure that the man without an ideal makes fifty thousand. Therefore, it is better to have an ideal.

[kxramesh]

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

[kxramesh]

'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.'

'Religion is the manifestation of Divinity already in man.'

'Religion of the world have become lifeless mockeries. What the world wants is character.'

[kxramesh]

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.

[kxramesh]

Who are you to solve women's problems? Are you the lord God that you should rule over every widow and every woman? Hands off! They will solve their own problems.