Swami Vivekananda Quotations

1. The only test of good things is that they make us strong.
- Swami Vivekananda

2. Is it not tremendously blasphemous to believe against reason? What right have we not to use the greatest gift that God has given to us? I am sure God will pardon a man who will use his reason and cannot believe, rather than a man who believes blindly instead of using the facilities He has given him.
- Swami Vivekananda

3. 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

4. The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful.
- Swami Vivekananda

5. This I have seen in life, he who is overcautious about himself falls into dangers at every step; he who is afraid of losing honor and respect, gets only disgrace; he who is always afraid of loss always losses.
- Swami Vivekananda

6. In judging others we always judge them by our own ideals. That is not as it should be. Everyone must be judged according to his own ideal, and not by that of anyone else.
- Swami Vivekananda