![Swami Vivekananda (January 12, 1863 – July 4, 1902), born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna of the 19th century. He was a key figure in spreading Vedanta and Yoga 's Indian philosophies to the Western world, and is credited with increasing consciousness of interfaith, bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion in the late 19th century. He was a significant force in the revival of Hinduism in India and contributed to the idea of Indian nationalism as an instrument of rebellion against the British Empire in colonial India.[9] Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission. He is perhaps best known for his speech that started with the words "Sisters and Brothers of America …" in which he presented Hinduism at the Parli.](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_lossy,ret_img,w_598,h_276/https://starsquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Swami-Vivekananda-Quotes-On-Education-Student-Love-Life-SuccessFear.-Bio-Photos-11.jpg)
Swami Vivekananda Quotes:
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Swami Vivekananda
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
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
Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.
Swami Vivekananda
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
Swami Vivekananda
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Swami Vivekananda
The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Swami Vivekananda
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
Swami Vivekananda
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him – that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Swami Vivekananda
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
Swami Vivekananda
The will is not free – it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect – but there is something behind the will which is free.
Swami Vivekananda
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Swami Vivekananda
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
When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
Swami Vivekananda
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Swami Vivekananda