Swami Vivekananda

“Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.”

“Watch every thought that comes into your mind, weigh it, and then form your conclusions and your actions.”

“Talk to yourself once a day, otherwise you may miss meeting an excellent person in this world.”

“If superstition enters, the brain is gone.”

“The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.”

“Take risks in your life. If you win, you can lead; if you lose, you can guide.”

“Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.”

“Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.”

“It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us.”

“The misery that I suffer is more or less my own work.”

“Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. The moment you fear, you are nobody.”

“All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction.”

“We must have life-building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.”

“Three things are necessary to make every man great, every nation great: conviction of the powers of goodness; absence of jealousy and suspicion; helping all who are trying to be and do good.”

“Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being?”

“The Vedanta says that you are pure and perfect, and that there is a state beyond good and evil, and that is your own nature.”

“If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil.”

“He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.”

“The great secret is not to kill the desire, but to redirect it.”