Swami Vivekananda to the Youth of India

• Men, men, these are wanted: everything else will be ready, but strong, vigorous, believing young men, sincere to the backbone, are wanted. A hundred such and the world become revolutionized.

• Come out and be men! India wants the sacrifice of at least a thousand of her young men — men, mind you, and not brutes.
• Chastity is the first virtue in man or woman.
• He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.
• Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in God this is the secret of greatness.
• He is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
• Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.
• All the strength and succor you want is within yourselves. Therefore make your own future.
• Whatever we shall be in the future will be the result of what we think and do now.
• The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
• Anything that makes you weak physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject as poison.
• It is character that cleaves its way through adamantine walls of difficulties.
• Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.
• What I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.
• Let us all work hard, my brethren, this is no time for sleep. On our work depends the coming of the India of the future.
• Utter no words of condemnation. Close your lips, and let your hearts open.
• All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves.
• Religion and religion alone is the life of India, and when that goes India will die.
• Purity in thought, speech and act is absolutely necessary for anyone to be religious.
• The Indian nation cannot be killed, so long as her people do not give up their spirituality.
• The mainspring of the strength of every race lies in its spirituality, and the death of that race begins the day that spirituality wanes and materialism gains ground.
• Purity, patience and perseverance are the three essentials of success and above all – LOVE.
• He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.
• It is a privilege to serve mankind, for this is the worship of God.
• Even thinking of the least good of others gradually instils into the heart, the strength of a lion.
• They alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
• Arise! Awake! And Stop Not till the goal is reached.