"Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up...." - Quote by Swami Vivekananda

“As the cause is, so the effect will be.”

“Bold words and bolder deeds are what we want. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?”

“The road to gooď is the roughest and steepest inthe universe. It is a wonder that so many succeed,no wonder that so many fall. Character has to beestablished through a thousand stumbles.”

“This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body.”

“The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends.”

“The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.”

“Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.”

“Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.”

“How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.”