Swami Vivekananda
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“Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny”
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“They alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.”
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“Arise! Awake! And stop not till the goal is reached.” 4
“To be good and to do good - that is the whole of religion.” 5
“Strength is life,
Weakness is death.”
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“All the power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that; don’t believe that you are weak. Stand up and express the divinity within you.”
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“What ever you think, that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be; if you think yourself strong; strong you will be.”
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“Stand and die in your own strength; if there is any sin in the world, it is weakness; avoid all weakness, for weakness is sin, weakness is death.”
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“Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is
CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.” 10
“He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religion said that he was an atheist who does not believe in God. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.”
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“The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.”
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“Help if you can; if you cannot, fold your hands and stand by and see things go on. Do not injure, if you cannot render help.”
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Three things are necessary to make every man great, every nation great:
1. Conviction of the powers of goodness, 2. Absence of jealousy and suspicion, 3. Helping all who are trying to be and do good.
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“Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or a temple.”
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“Misery comes through attachment, not through work.
As soon as we identify
ourselves