SWAMI VIVEKANANDA QUOTES

SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

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

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.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

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

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

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.

Who is Helping You, Don’t Forget them.

Who is Loving you, Don’t Hate them.

Who is Believing you, Don’t Cheat them.

Talk to yourself at least once in a Day… Otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World…

Anything that makes you weak physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject as poison.

Like me or Hate me,

both are in my favor,

If you like me I am in your Heart,

If you hate me I am in your mind.

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals place them day and night before you and out of that will come great work.

FUNNY QUOTES

FUNNY ONE LINE QUOTES

Brains are wonderful, I wish everyone had one.

The panic begins with the first one to say 'Calm down!'

Marriage is the main reason for divorce.

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason.

Life is beautiful… from Friday to Monday.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.  I always do research.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.

We live in a society where pizza gets to your house before the police.

I could not repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.


A person has to have a warm heart and a cold beer.


As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools.


The device will work much better, if you turn it on.


Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.


Ninety-nine percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

Do you need space? Join NASA

Love is blind, only marriage opens your eyes.

If you fall in love with 2 guys – stay with the second, because if you really loved, you never required the second.

Don’t drink while driving – you will spill the beer.

Team work is important; it helps to put the blame on someone else.

Only a widow can say exactly where her husband is.

It does not matter how much you work, there will always be an idiot that works less but gets more.

Don’t say that you’re working; better show what you have earned.

Salary is like a period – you wait for it a whole month and it ends in a week.

The most valuable money is the money that you have to give back.

When I was born – I cried. When they took me to army – I understood why.

A bad boxer does not need toothpaste.

WEALTH AND PLEASURE

WEALTH AND PLEASURE

Money changes people just as often as it changes hands.

Wealth hath never given happiness, but hastened misery.

How can true happiness proceed from wealth, which in its acquisition causes pain; in loss, affliction; in abundance, folly.

Do not call him happy who has the most wealth, but to him who has the fewest troubles.

Wealth is a bottom less sea in which conscience, truth, and honor may be drowned.

Money often costs too much.

If you cannot say no, you cannot expect to live within your income.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Money is good servant, but a poor master.

There is no greater curse than the lack of contentment; no greater sin than the desire for possession.

We brought nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing out.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

Wealth is like sea water, the more we drink, the thirstier we become.

Charity may begin at home, but should not end there.

WISE ADVICE

GOLDMINE OF WISE ADVICE

If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don’t need advice.

He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.

We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.

The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.

Never lent books, for no one ever returns them.  The only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.

Advice is like a castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

Never advise anyone to go to war or marry.

If we do not stand for something, we fall for anything.

Speak little about what you know and keep quiet about what you don’t know.

To handle yourself, use your head, to handle others, use your heart.

Enjoy your life without comparing it with that of another.

The quickest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more.

Opportunity sooner or later, comes to all who work and wish.

Our greatest glory is not never failing, but in rising every time we fail.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.

Give light and people will find their own way.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can,

In all the ways you can, in all the places you can,

At all the times you can, to all the people you can,

As long as ever you can.

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTATIONS

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTATIONS

"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it."

"Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."

"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."

"Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis."

"The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it."

"Dream big and dare to fail."

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."

"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it."

FUNNY QUOTATIONS

FUNNY QUOTATIONS

"Everybody wants to go to heaven; but nobody wants to die."

"Never take life seriously.  Nobody gets out alive anyway."

"Cell phones these days keep getting thinner and smarter... people the opposite."

"The road to success is always under construction."

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."

"I always dream of being a millionaire like my uncle!... He's dreaming too."

"Who says nothing is impossible? I've been doing nothing for years."

"Stop worrying about the world ending today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."

"Sometimes when I close my eyes, I can't see."

"If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button."

"I love my job only when I'm on vacation."

"I'm sorry that I'm not updating my Facebook status, my cat ate my mouse."

"A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing."

QUOTATIONS BY SHAKESPEARE

QUOTATIONS BY SHAKESPEARE

"Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood."

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?  Thou art more lovely and more temperate:  Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,  And summer's lease hath all too short a dat."

"All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts."

"This was the noblest Roman of them all."

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet."

In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes,
For they in thee a thousand errors note;
But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise,
Who in despite of view is pleased to dote;

"Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."

"Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving."

"A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes."