Swami Vivekananda 158th birth anniversary quotes
Swami Vivekananda 158th birth anniversary quotes – Vivekananda was born as Narendranath Datta on January 12, 1863, in an aristocratic family in northern Calcutta. The birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda is also celebrated as National Youth Day in India. Swami Vivekananda joined the Brahmo Samaj (Brahma Samaj) dedicated to the eradication of child marriage and illiteracy.
1.”A brave, frank, clean-hearted, courageous and aspiring youth is the only foundation on which the future nation can be built.”
2.”We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”
3.”Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.”
4.Your aim is yours, so don’t change it for others.”
5.”Arise, awake and stop not until the goal is reached.”
6.”If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished-mountains can be crumbled into atom.”
7.“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.”
8.“A few heart- whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.”
9.”Face the brutes.’ That is a lesson for all life-face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.”
10.”In a day, when you don’t come across any problems – you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.”
11.Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
12.Never say no, Never say, ‘I cannot’, for you are infinite. All the power is within you. You can do anything.
13.Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.
14.You are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the almighty, omnipresent, divine principle. You may laugh at me now, but the time will come when you will understand. You must. Nobody will be left behind.
15.Take risks in your life, if you win, you can lead! if you lose, you can guide!
16.The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.
17.Talk to yourself at least once in a day. Otherwise, you may miss a meeting with an excellent person in this world.
18.Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe.
19.Every successful man must have behind him somewhere tremendous integrity, tremendous sincerity, and that is the cause of his signal success in life. He may not have been perfectly unselfish; yet he was tending towards it. If he had been perfectly unselfish, his would have been as great a success as that of the
20.Buddha or of the Christ. The degree of unselfishness marks the degree of success everywhere.
21.Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.
22.True religion is not talk, or doctrines, or theories, nor is it sectarianism. It is the relation between soul and God. Religion does not consist in erecting temples, or building churches, or attending public worship. It is not to be found in books, or in words, or in lectures, or in organizations.
23.Religion consists in realization. We must realize God, feel God, see God, talk to God. That is religion.
24.Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you. Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.
The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
25.He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.
26.Each man has a mission in life, which is the result of all his infinite past Karma.
