It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is!
Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life in you. Even though you know you are going to be killed, fight till you “are killed.” Don’t die of fright. Die fighting. Don’t go down till you are knocked down.
Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it.
Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else left in the mind; no place for anything else, no time for anything else.
You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains.
The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties.
Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing ones.
Freedom can never be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself.
I direct my attention to the individual, to make him strong, to teach him that he himself is divine, and I call upon men to make themselves conscious of this divinity within. That is really the ideal – conscious or unconscious – of every religion.
Superhuman power is not strong enough.
Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong.
The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that comes physical help.
Give up the awful disease that is creeping into our national blood, that idea of ridiculing everything, that loss of seriousness. Give that up. Be strong and have this Shraddha, and everything else is bound to follow.
He who always thinks himself as weak will never become strong, but he who knows himself to be a lion, rushes out from the worlds meshes, as a lion from its cage.
The world sympathizes only with strong and powerful.
If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.
I love my nation, I cannot see you degraded, weakened any more than you are now. Therefore I am bound for your sake and for truth’s to cry, “Hold!” and to raise my voice against this degradation of my race. Give up these weakening mysticism and be strong...
If there is no strength in body and mind, the Atman cannot be realized. First you have to build the body by good nutritious food-then only will the mind be strong.
My child, 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.