Swami Vivekananda Power Quotations

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.

Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, "here, my poor man", but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect.

Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality.

The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone.

What power is higher than the power of purity?

Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only.

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.

From the highest god to the meanest grass, the same power is present in all - whether manifested or not. We shall have to call forth that power by going from door to door.

Accumulation of power is as necessary as its diffusion, or rather more so.

All power is His and within His command.

All want power, but few will wait to gain it for themselves.

Even the least work done for others awakens the power within.

Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe.

If one has got power, one must manifest it in action.

It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.

Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.

Prana is the driving power of the world, and can be seen in every manifestation of life.

Superhuman power is not strong enough.

The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear.

There is no power on earth which can be kept long confined within a narrow limit. It cannot be kept compressed too long to allow of expansion at a subsequent period.

Thought is like a bubble rising to the surface. When thought is joined to will, we call it power. That which strikes the sick person whom you are trying to help is not thought, but power.

To see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal.

What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.