Explore · 31 sayings

Strength & Fearlessness

“Awake, arise, and dream no more!”
Volume 4 · To the Awakened India →
“Struggle, struggle up to light! Onward!”
Volume 6 · LXXI Rakhal →
“Struggle is the sign of life.”
Volume 7 · I - XXIX (*From the Diary of a Disciple*): XVIII →
“Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.”
Volume 3 · Reply to the Address of Welcome at Paramakudi →
“Strength is life, weakness is death.”
Volume 2 · Work and its Secret →
“Dare to seek Truth even through hell.”
Volume 8 · Discourses on Jnana-Yoga: IX →
“Give up these weakening mysticisms and be strong.”
Volume 3 · My Plan of Campaign →
“Be fearless. Ignore the ordinary critics as worms!”
Volume 6 · CXXXV Sarada: » →
“Fear is the greatest sin my religion teaches.”
Volume 5 · XXXII Sister →
“The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.”
Volume 7 · Tuesday, July 16 →
“Is there a greater strength than that of Knowledge?”
Volume 5 · XVI Sister: « →
“Be strong, get beyond all superstitions, and be free.”
Volume 8 · Man the Maker of His Destiny →
“Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin.”
Volume 5 · Sayings and Utterances →
“It is faith that makes a lion of a man.”
Volume 5 · LV Alasinga →
“Mind you, the great benefit in this life is struggle.”
Volume 5 · Sadhanas or Preparations for Higher Life →
“Man dies but once. My disciples must not be cowards.”
Volume 5 · XLIII Alasinga →
“Resist not evil. Face it! You are higher than evil.”
Volume 8 · Discipleship →
“Work on! Hold on! Be brave! Dare anything and everything!”
Volume 5 · LXIV Alasinga →
“Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.”
Volume 3 · The Mission of the Vedanta →
“Give up your passive attitude, gird your loins and stand up.”
Volume 6 · LVI Dear and Beloved →
“It is the heart, the heart that conquers, not the brain.”
Volume 6 · CXXVIII Akhandananda →
“Off with laziness. Spread! Spread! Run like fire to all places.”
Volume 6 · XLV Brothers →
“Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it.”
Volume 4 · My Master →
“There is no end to the power a man can obtain.”
Volume 2 · The Powers of the Mind →
“Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism.”
Volume 3 · The Work before us →
“None is really weak; the soul is infinite, omnipotent, and omniscient.”
Volume 3 · The Mission of the Vedanta →
“Arise ! Awake ! and stop not until the goal is reached.”
Volume 1 · What is Religion? →
“God is not to be reached by the weak. Never be weak.”
Volume 4 · The Preparation →
“Compared to the coward that never made the attempt, he is a hero.”
Volume 4 · The Social Conference Address →
“Arise, O Prince! Give up this faint-heartedness, this weakness! Stand up and fight!”
Volume 1 · Gita II →
“You must be fearless. It is the coward who fears and defends himself.”
Volume 6 · LIV Swami Ramakrishnanda →