Motivational quotes by Swami Bibekananda

Swami Bibekananda's born name was Narendra. He was an IndianHindu monk, a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world and is credited with raising interfaith awareness, bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion during the late 19th century. He was a major force in the revival of
Hinduism in India, and contributed to the concept of nationalism in colonial India. 

             SWAMI BIBEKANANDA QUOTES

1. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
2. Arise, awake, and stop not until the goal is achieved.
3. If I love myself despite my infinite faults, how can I hate anyone at the glimpse of a few faults.
4. Talk to yourself once in a day, otherwise, you may miss meeting an excellent person in this world.
5. All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who we have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

6. Who is helping you don’t forget them. Who is loving you, don’t hate them. Who is believing you, don’t cheat them.
7. The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
8. We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care of what you think. Words are secondary. live; thoughts they travel far
9. The reason for every misunderstanding is that we see the people as we are but not as they are.
10. Never think yourself weak.
11. Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
12. Everything that is excellent will come when this sleeping soul is aroused to self-conscious activity.

13. Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all, love.
14. What I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.
15. See for the highest, aim at the highest, and you shall reach the highest.
16. He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.
17. The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified.
18. Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
19. All power is within you; you can do anything.
20. A man is not poor without a rupee but a man is really poor without a dream and ambition.

21. You have to grow from the inside out.
22. Never think yourself weak.
23. Believe in yourself.
24. When I asked God for strength, He gave me difficult situations to face.
25. Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
26. We make our own luck.
27. When I asked God for peace, He showed me how to help others.
28. God gave me nothing I wanted, He gave me everything I needed.
29. Have faith in yourselves, and stand up on that faith and be strong; that is what we need.
30. This is the great lesson that we are here to learn through myriads of births and heavens and hells — that there is nothing to be asked for, desired for, beyond one’s spiritual Self.