Swami Vivekananda

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, 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.

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.

Arise, awake, and stop not until the goal is achieved.