Swami Vivekananda's Quotes On Strength

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  The world is ready to give up its secrets
   if we only know how to knock, 
  how to give it the necessary blow. 
  The strength and force of the blow 
  come through concentration.
  

  —Swami Viekananda

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  Anything that is secret and mysterious in these systems of yoga should be at once rejected. The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it.^[Source]
• Be strong! Don’t talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it! There is salvation only for the brave.^[Source]
• Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas. Avoid all these. Avoid all mystery.^[Source]
• By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands now, we make ourselves stronger; and improving our strength in this manner step by step, we may reach a state in which it shall be our privilege to do the most coveted and honored duties in life and in society.
• Doing good to others is virtue (dharma); injuring others is sin. Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice  are sin. Independence is virtue; dependence is in. Loving others is virtue; hating others is sin. Faith in God and in one's own self is virtue, doubt is sin. Knowledge of oneness is virtue; seeing diversity is sin.
• Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.
• God is not to be reached by the weak. Never be weak. You have infinite strength within you. How else will you conquer anything? How else will you come to God?^[Source]
• . . . Hold on with faith and strength; be true, be honest, be pure, and don't quarrel among yourselves. Jealousy is the bane of our race.
• If you want to be great materially, believe that you are so. I may be a little bubble, and you may be wave mountain-high, but know that for both of us the infinite ocean is the background, the infinite Brahman is our magazine of power and strength, and we can draw as much as we like, both of us. I the bubble and you the mountain-high wave. Believe therefore in yourselves.
• If there is no strength in body and mind, the Atman cannot be realized. First you have to build the body by good nutritious food—then only will the mind be strong.
• It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.
• Infinite strength is religion and God.^[Source]
• Know that every time you feel weak, you not only hurt yourself but also the cause. Infinite faith and strength are the only conditions of success.
• . . . Please everybody without becoming a hypocrite and without being a coward. Hold on to your own ideas with strength and purity, and whatever obstructions may now be in your way, the world is bound to listen to you in the long run. . . . ^[Source]
• Say, ‘This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone.’ That which I created, I can demolish; that which is created by someone else, I shall never be able to destroy. Therefore, stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creators of your own destiny. All the strength and succour you want is within ourselves.
• 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. All the strength and succour you want is within yourself. Therefore make your own future.
• Strength is in goodness, in purity.^[Source]
• Strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal. Weakness is constant strain and misery; weakness is death.
• Strength is the medicine for the world's disease. Strength is the medicine which the poor must have when tyrannised over by the rich. Strength is the medicine that the ignorant must have when oppressed by the learned; and it is the medicine that sinners must have when tyrannised over by other sinners; and nothing gives such strength as this idea of monism. Nothing makes us so moral as this idea of monism.^[Source]
• Strength is the sign of vigour, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, and the sign of everything that is good. As long as the body lives, there must be strength in the body, strength in the mind, strength in the hand.
• Strength, strength it is that we want so much in this life, for what we call sin and sorrow have all one cause, and that is our weakness.^[Source]
• The difference between weakness and strength is one of degree; the difference between virtue and vice is one of degree, the difference between heaven and hell is one of degree, the difference between life and death is one of degree, all differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.^[Source]
• The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.
• The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.
• The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
• This is the great fact: strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death.
• The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.
• Wait with patience and love and strength. If helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be in a hurry? The real working force of all great work is in its almost unperceived beginnings.
• What this world wants today, more than it ever did before, is strength.^[Source]

See also

1.  Swami Vivekananda: Stirring Quotes and Utterances

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