Skip to content
quotesby

About this quote

What does it mean?
Vivekananda associates strength with life, hope, health, and goodness across body and mind.
In plain terms
Strength shows life, hope, and goodness in body and mind.
What can you take from it?
Cultivate strength in body and mind.

Where it applies

  • physical training
  • mental challenges
  • recovery

Putting it to work

  • exercise regularly
  • build mental resilience

Questions to consider

  • What does strength mean to you?
  • How do you balance strength and rest?

Another view

Weakness can be a healthy signal to rest.

More from Swami Vivekananda

  1. Stand upon the Self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand; knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all t…

    Permalink to quote #131
  2. Superstition is our great enemy, but bigotry is worse.

    Permalink to quote #133
  3. Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and …

    Permalink to quote #130

Related quotes

  1. Sure, for all our blindness; secure, for all our helplessness; strong, for all our weakness; gaily in love, for all the pressures on our hearts.

    Thomas AquinasThomas Aquinas quote #18
  2. I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse …

    Joseph ConradJoseph Conrad quote #19
  3. One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held…

    Robert BrowningRobert Browning quote #20