Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Thought is the soul of act.

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.

One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.

A Deed knocks first at Thought And then - it knocks at Will - That is the manufacturing spot.

INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.

Thought is the seed of action.

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

She bent her finger and then straightened it. The mystery was in the instant before it moved, the dividing moment between not moving and moving, when her intention took effect. It was like a wave breaking. If she could only find herself at the crest, she thought, she might find the secret of herself, that part of her that was really in charge. She brought her forefinger closer to her face and stared at it, urging it to move. It remained still because she was pretending... . And when she did crook it finally, the action seemed to start in the finger itself, not in some part of her mind.

Reason can no more influence the will, and operate as a motive, than the eyes which show a man his road can enable him to move from place to place, or that a ship provided with a compass can sail without a wind.

Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.

Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book.

The "Power of One" is a slogan--not a goal.

Wanting to leave is enough.

Self-actualizing people - highly functioning people who live at extraordinary levels of awareness - train their minds to focus on what they intend to create and what they intend to manifest, and they won't let anybody change their mind.

Action is thought tempered by illusion.

Inspiration is intention obeyed.

Every one may know that to will and not to do, when there is opportunity, is in reality not to will; and that to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it. Will, which stops short of action, and love, which does not do the good that is loved, is a mere thought separate from will and love, which vanishes and comes to nothing.

Try to think where you want to put the ball, not where you don't want it to go.

Remember this maxim: When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. The way you perceive things is an extremely powerful tool that will allow you to fully bring the power of intention into your life.

Persuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a word, force applied through the mind.

Our motives and thoughts ultimately influence our actions.

Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.

Faith is the eternal elixir. It gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought.