Swami Vivekananda Progress Quotations

Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well being, and indeed the preservation of the social system.

It is the duty of every person to contribute in the development and progress of India.

The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

One atom in this universe cannot move without dragging the whole world along with it. There cannot be any progress without the whole world following in the wake, and it is becoming every day dearer that the solution of any problem can never be attained on racial, or national, or narrow grounds.

How can there be any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge?

What we want is progress, development, realisation.

We shall progress inch by inch.

We know there is no progress in a straight line.

We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.

We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth

True progress is slow but sure.

The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.

The progress of the world through all its evils making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely.

The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too.

The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature.

The Indian mythology has a theory of cycles, that all progression is in the form of waves.

Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.

Look not back. No, not even if you see the dearest and nearest cry. Look not back, but forward. We cannot stop. If we stop we die. We have either to go forward or to go backward. We have either to progress or to degenerate.

All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.

Chemistry ceases to improve when one element is found from which all others are deductible. Physics ceases to progress when one force is found of which all others are manifestations. So religion ceases to progress when unity is reached, which is the case with Hinduism.

All manifest life seems to require a period of sleep, of calm, in which to gain added strength, renewed vigour, for the next manifestation, or awakening to activity. Thus is the march of all progress, of all manifest life - in waves, successive waves, [of] activity and repose. Waves succeed each other in an endless chain of progression.

Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves - art, literature, science, religion.

None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.

May blessings and happiness attend every step of your progress in this world.

Language is the chief means and index of a nation's progress.

Just as the body has its progress and decadence, so also has the mind, and, therefore, the mind is not the soul, because the soul can neither decay nor degenerate.

It is the nature of the brute to remain where he is (not to progress); it is the nature of man to seek good and avoid evil; it is the nature of God to seek neither, but just to be eternally blissful. Let us be God!

I do not believe in eternal progress, that we are growing on ever and ever in a straight line. It is too nonsensical to believe. There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle. The force sent out will complete the circle and return to its starting place.

Do you think there is any other means of achieving progress except through Rajas?

All real progress must be slow.

All progression is in the relative world.

According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.

All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative.