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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