Swami Vivekananda

“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.”

“First, believe in the world — that there is meaning behind everything.”

“We have wept long enough. No more weeping, but stand on your feet and be men.”

“It is the level of human consciousness which has to be raised, slowly, gradually.”

“Have faith in yourselves and stand up on that faith and be strong; that is what we need.”

“All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.”

“Each work has to pass through these stages — ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance.”

“Those who are working without any consciousness of their lower self are in a way protected.”

“Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.”

“The earth is enjoyed by heroes — this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero.”

“What we want is to see the man who is harmoniously developed — great in heart, great in mind, great in deed.”

“We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind?”

“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.”

“Liberty is the first condition of growth.”

“The cure for evils lies in attaining the spiritual unity, in becoming spiritual.”

“What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.”

“Truth alone triumphs, not untruth. Through truth alone the path called divine is laid out.”