We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us".
Swami VivekanandaEvery individual is a center for the manifestation of a certain force. This force has been stored up as the resultant of our previous works, and each one of us is born with this force at our back.
Swami VivekanandaStrength, strength for us. What we need is strength, who will give us strength? There are thousands to weaken us, and of stories we have had enough.
Swami VivekanandaI am one of the proudest men ever born, but let me tell you frankly, it is not for myself, but on account of my ancestry. The more I have studied the past, the more I have looked back, more and more has this pride come to me, and it has given me the strength and courage of conviction, raised me up from the dust of the earth, and set me working out that great plan laid out by those great ancestors of ours.
Swami Vivekananda