Swami Vivekananda Quotes.

1. "Our Karma determines what we deserve and what we can assimilate."
- Swami Vivekananda, Karma Yoga: The Yoga of action

2. "It is a weakness to think that any one is dependent on me, and that I can do good to another. This belief is the mother of all our attachment, and through this attachment comes all our pain. We must inform our minds that no one in this universe depends upon us; not one beggar depends on our charity; not one soul on our kindness; not one living thing on our help. All are helped on by nature, and will be so helped even though millions of us were not here. The course of nature will not stop for such as you and me; it is, as already pointed out, only a blessed privilege to you and to me that we are allowed, in the way of helping others, to educate ourselves. This is a great lesson to learn in life, and when we have learned it fully, we shall never be unhappy; we can go and mix without harm in society anywhere and everywhere."
- Swami Vivekananda, Karma Yoga: The Yoga of action

3. "When you have trained your mind and your nerves to realise this idea of the world's nondependence on you or on anybody, there will then be no reaction in the form of pain resulting from work."
- Swami Vivekananda, Karma Yoga: The Yoga of action

4. "No man is to be judged by the mere nature of his duties, but all should be judged by the manner and the spirit in which they perform them."
- Swami Vivekananda, Karma Yoga: The Yoga of action

5. "If there were no fanaticism in the world, it would make much more progress than it does now. It is a mistake to think that fanaticism can make for the progress of mankind. On the contrary, it is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic. We"
- Swami Vivekananda, Karma Yoga: The Yoga of action

6. "Christianity was preached just on the basis of the fascination of this fanaticism, and that is what made it so attractive to the Greek and the Roman slaves. They believed that under the millennial religion there would be no more slavery, that there would be plenty to eat and drink; and, therefore, they flocked round the Christian standard. Those who preached the idea first were of course ignorant fanatics, but very sincere. In modern times this millennial aspiration takes the form of equality--of liberty, equality, and fraternity. This is also fanaticism. True"
- Swami Vivekananda, Karma Yoga: The Yoga of action

7. "All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do any thing and everything, without even the guidance of any one. Stand up and express the divinity within you."
- Swami Vivekananda, Lectures from Colombo to Almora

8. "Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, 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, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced."
- Swami Vivekananda, Vedanta Philosophy: Lectures by the Swami Vivekananda on Raja Yoga Also Pantanjali's Yoga Aphorisms

9. "Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!"
- Swami Vivekananda, Raja-Yoga

10. "Take Risks in Your Life If u Win, U Can Lead! If u Lose, U Can Guide!"
- Swami Vivekananda, Raja-Yoga