He is an atheist who
does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an
atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is an
atheist who does not believe in himself.
---Vivekananda
The
history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in
themselves. That faith calls out the divinity within. You can do
anything. You fail only when you do not strive sufficiently to manifest
infinite power. As soon as a man or a nation loses faith, death comes.
---Vivekananda
Faith,
faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in God, this is the secret of
greatness. If you have faith in all the three hundred and thirty
millions of your mythological gods, and in all the gods which foreigners
have now and again introduced into your midst, and still have no faith
in yourselves, there is no salvation for you. (III. 190)
---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. (II. 308)
---Vivekananda
Whatever
you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will
be; if you think yourselves strong, you will be. If you think
yourselves strong, strong you will be (III. 130)
---Vivekananda
Be free;
hope for noting from any one. I am sure if you look back upon your
lives, you will find that you were always vainly trying to get help from
others, which never came. All the help that has come was from within
yourselves. (II. 324)
---Vivekananda
Never say,
`No'; never say, `I cannot', for you are infinite. Even time and space
are as nothing compared with your nature. You can do anything and
everything, you are almighty. (II. 300)
---Vivekananda
Ye are the
children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect
beings. Ye divinities on earth-sinners! It is a sin to call a man so; it
is a standing libel on human nature. Come up, O lions, and shake off
the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free,
blest and eternal. (I. 11)
---Vivekananda
Never mind
the struggles, the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is
only a cow-never a man. So never mind these failures, these little
backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times; and if you fail a
thousand times make the attempt once more. (II. 152)
---Vivekananda
The remedy
for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
Teach men of the strength that is already within them. (II. 300)
---Vivekananda
If there
is one word that you find coming like a bomb from the Upanisads,
bursting like a bomb-shell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word, fearlessness. (III. 160)
---Vivekananda
If you
look, you will find that I have never quoted anything but the Upanisads.
And of the Upanisads, it is only that one idea strength. The
quintessence of the Vedas and Vedanta and all lies in that one word.
(VIII. 267)
---Vivekananda
Be strong,
my young friends, that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to
heaven through football than through the study of the Gita. These are
bold words, but I have to say them, for I love you. I know where the
shoe pinches. I have gained a little experience. You will understand the
Gita better with your biceps, your muscles, a little stronger. (III.
242)
---Vivekananda
This is
the one question I put to every man .... Are you strong? Do you feel
strength? - for I know it is truth alone that gives strength. ...
Strength is the medicine for the world's disease. (II. 201)
---Vivekananda
This is
the great fact: Strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is
felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and
misery, weakness is death. (II. 3)
---Vivekananda
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