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National Youth Day 2025: Swami Vivekananda was one of the visionary leaders of India whose ideology and acts continue to guide the Indian youth. To honour his contribution in India’s development, National Youth Day is celebrated every on his birth anniversary 12 January.
From Swami Vivekananda’s iconic speech at the First World’s Parliament of Religions to his address for youngsters, here are top quotes by Swami Vivekananda on his birth anniversary.
National Youth Day 2025: Top quotes by Swami Vivekananda
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far
Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him – that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
(Quotes compiled from www.brainyquote.com)