Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.
Swami VivekanandaRead
We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us".
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes perseverance and dedication to one's ideals, regardless of external judgments.
Swami Vivekananda's quote encourages individuals to relentlessly pursue their goals while maintaining their ideals as a guiding force. It highlights the importance of resilience and determination, suggesting that one should not be swayed by the opinions of others, whether they are positive or negative, but instead focus on the work at hand and the vision for the future.
Themes
WorkDeterminationIdealPersistenceSuccess
In practice
Example use cases
Motivational talks for students pursuing their dreams.
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All quotes βRama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, and above all, the ideal king, this Rama has been presented before us by the great sage Valmiki. No language can be purer, none chaster, none more beautiful, and at the same time simpler, than the language in which the great poet has depicted the life of Rama.
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Hinduism threw away Buddhism after taking its sap. The attempt of all the Southern Acharyas was to effect a reconciliation between the two. Shankaracharya's teaching shows the influence of Buddhism. His disciples perverted his teaching and carried it to such an extreme point that some of the later reformers were right in calling the Acharya's followers "crypto-buddhists".
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According to the law of nature, wherever there is an awakening of a new and stronger life, there it tries to conquer and take the place of the old and the decaying. Nature favours the dying out of the unfit and the survival of the fittest. The final result of such conflict between the priestly and the other classes has been mentioned already.
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I have come to deal with principles. I have only to preach that God comes again and again, and that He came in India as Krishna, Rama, and Buddha, and that He will come again. It can almost be demonstrated that after each 500 years the world sinks, and a tremendous spiritual wave comes, and on the top of the wave is a Christ.
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Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by work. It is a question of knowledge! You must know what you are, and it is done. The dream vanishes. This you [and others] are dreaming here. When they die, they go to [the] heaven [of their dream]. They live in that dream, and [when it ends], they take a nice body [here], and they are good people.
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