The document contains quotes from Swami Vivekananda emphasizing strength of character, self-belief, serving others, and helping those trying to do good. Some of the key messages are: stand up for yourself with strength and confidence; the greatest strength comes from living for and helping others; having conviction in goodness, humility, and assisting all who strive for betterment are what make people and nations great.
7. All the power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that; dont believe that you are weak. Stand up and express the divinity with in you
8. What ever you think, that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be; if you think yourself strong; strong you will be
9. Stand and die in your own strength; if there is any sin in the world, it is weakness; avoid all weakness, for weakness is sin, weakness is death
10. Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference
11. He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religion said that he was an atheist who does not believe in God. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself
13. Help if you can; if you cannot, fold your hands and stand by and see things go on. Do not injure, if you cannot render help
14. Three things are necessary to make every man great, every nation great Conviction of the powers of goodness Absence of jealousy and suspicion Helping all who are trying to be and do good
15. Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.
16. Misery comes through attachment, not through work. As soon as we identify ourselves with work we do, we feel miserable; but if we dont identify ourselves with it, we do not feel that misery
17. Nature wants us to react, to return blow for blow, cheating for cheating, lie for lie, to hit back with all our might, then it requires a super divine power not hit back, to keep control, to be unattached
18. Always first learn to be a servant, and then you will be fit to be a master. Avoid this jealousy, and you will do great works that have yet to be done
19. You must have an iron will if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains
20. Take up one idea, make that one idea your life, think of it, dream of it, live of it, let the brain, muscle, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way great spiritual giants are produced, others are mere talking machines
21. Your country requires heroes; be heroes; your duty is to go on working, and then everything will follow of itself