Swami Vivekananda – his name inspires many. Be it industrialists like Jamshedji Tata or John D Rockfeller or a scientist like Nicola Tesla, he touched the lives of many. There are many Indian greats, but it would not be wrong to say that the world came to know India due to the words of the Swami. Even people who take the pleasure in defying him cannot but bow down to the impact he created.
With respect to the great man, his thoughts, his mission here are some of his golden quotes. They may impact you too as they inspired Netaji Subash, Sri Aurobindo, Sister Nivedita, Mark Twain, Romain Rolland and several others.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each can be true.
Talk to yourself once in a day…. Otherwise you may miss meeting an excellent person in this world.
Arise, Awake and stop not until the goal is reached.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
You cannot believe in God, until you believe in yourself.
Things do not grow better, they remain as they are. We grow better by the changes we make in them.
You may always say that the image is God. The error you have to avoid is to think God is the image.
The test, the real test, of the leader lies in holding widely different people together along the line of their common sympathies.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
What do you gain by prayer? I gain nothing, In fact I lost anger, depression, jealousy, irritation and insecurity.
