Famous Quotes & Sayings

Swami Vivekananda

Why is it that we three hundred and thirty millions of people have been ruled for the last one thousand years by any and every handful of foreigners who chose to walk over our prostrate bodies? Because they had faith in themselves and we had not.

Swami Vivekananda

Wherever there is evil and wherever there is ignorance and want of knowledge, I have found out by experience that all evil comes, as our scriptures say, relying upon differences, and that all good comes from faith in equality, in the underlying sameness and oneness of things. This is the great Vedantic ideal.

Swami Vivekananda

The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first.

Swami Vivekananda

The essence of our Faith consists simply in this freedom of the Ishta.

Swami Vivekananda

So long as you have faith in your Guru, nothing will be able to obstruct your way.

Swami Vivekananda

Losing faith in one's self means losing faith in God.

Swami Vivekananda

Let me draw your attention to one thing which unfortunately we always forget: that is - "O man, have faith in yourself."

Swami Vivekananda

It is faith that makes a lion of a man.

Swami Vivekananda

I remember that grand word of the Katha Upanishad - Shraddhâ or marvellous faith. An instance of Shraddha can be found in the life of Nachiketâ. To preach the doctrine of Shraddha or genuine faith is the mission of my life. Let me repeat to you that this faith is one of the potent factors of humanity and of all religions. First, have faith in yourselves.

Swami Vivekananda

I do not care what philosophy you take up; only I am ready to prove here that throughout the whole of India, there runs a mutual and cordial string of eternal faith in the perfection of humanity, and I believe in it myself. And let that faith be spread over the whole land.

Swami Vivekananda

I am proud to call myself a Hindu, I am proud that I am one of your unworthy servants. I am proud that I am a countryman of yours, you the descendants of the sages, you the descendants of the most glorious Rishis the world ever saw. Therefore have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them.

Swami Vivekananda

Holiness sincerity, and faith.

Swami Vivekananda

. . . Have patience and be faithful unto death. Do not fight among yourselves. Be perfectly pure in money dealings. . . . We will do great things yet. . . . So long as you have faith and honesty and devotion, everything will prosper.

Swami Vivekananda

Have faith in yourself. You people were once the Vedic Rishis. Only, you have come in different forms, that's all. I see it clear as daylight that you all have infinite power in you. Rouse that up; arise, arise - apply yourselves heart and soul, gird up your loins.

Swami Vivekananda

Have faith. We will do

Swami Vivekananda

Have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them.

Swami Vivekananda

Have faith in yourselves, and stand up on that faith and be strong; that is what we need.

Swami Vivekananda

Have faith in your destiny

Swami Vivekananda

Faith is not belief, it is the grasp on the Ultimate, an illumination.

Swami Vivekananda

Faith in ourselves will do everything. I have experienced it in my own life, and am still doing so; and as I grow older that faith is becoming stronger and stronger. 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 the atheist who does not believe in himself

Swami Vivekananda

Do not disturb the faith of any. . . Our duty is not to disturb the faith of others.

Swami Vivekananda

Children of those ancient Aryans, through the grace of the Lord may you have the same pride, may that faith in your ancestors come into your blood, may it become a part and parcel of your lives, may it work towards the salvation of the world!

Swami Vivekananda

A man must not only have faith but intellectual faith too. To make a man take up everything and believe it, would be to make him a lunatic.

Robert A. Heinlein

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible.

Tilda Swinton

Faith is in the eye of the beholder.

Thomas Brooks

Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.

Victor Hugo

Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.

Victor Hugo

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Victor Hugo

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

Rita Mae Brown

It's an act of faith to be a writer in a post literate world.

Thornton Wilder

There is no creation without faith and hope. There is no faith and hope that does not express itself in creation.

Thornton Wilder

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Thomas More

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.