WORDS OF INSPIRATION

By Swami Vivekananda
Strength and fearlessness:
  • If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be ;if you think yourselves strong, strong you willbe.
  • Strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal, weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death.
Success:
  • Every successful man must have behind him somewhere tremendous integrity, tremendous sincerity, and that is the cause of his signal success of life.
  • Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work – this is the only way. Go on; remember – patience and purity and courage and steady work…so long as you are pure, and true to your principles, you will never fail.
  • No impatient one can ever succeed.
Words of inspiration:
  • Think not that you are poor; money is not power, but goodness, holiness.
  • Try to expand. Remember the only sign of life is motion and growth.
  • rise, awake and stop not till the desired end is reached. Be not afraid, for all great power, throughout the history of humanity, has been with the people. From out of their ranks have come all the greatest geniuses of the world.

(Compiled by Ria Karmakar from the booklet “Way to Success” published by Sri Ramakrishna Ashrama, Rajkot)