Tuesday, December 20, 2011

IF ANY MOTIVE POWER HAS BEEN MORE POTENT THEN ANOTHER IN THE LIVES OF ALL GREAT MEN AND WOMEN, IT IS THAT OF FAITH IN THEMSELVES.



Throughout the history of mankind, if any motive power has been more potent than another in the lives of all... great men and women, it is that of faith in themselves. Born with the consciousness that they were to be great, they became great. Let a man go down as low as possible; there must come a time when out of sheer desperation he will take an upward curve and will learn to have faith in himself. But it is better for us that we should know it from the very first.

- Swami Vivekananda
The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 2/Practical Vedanta and other lectures/Practical Vedanta: Part I (Delivered in London, 10th November 1896

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