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Swami Vivekananda is the greatest mentor of all the youths. He hoped that the fate of the world lies in the hands of youth and here are some of his quotes on youth.

Go, all of you, wherever there is an outbreak of plague or famine, or

wherever the people are in distress, and mitigate their sufferings…Preach

this ideal from door to door, and you will yourselves be benefited by it at

the same time that you are doing good to your country. On you lie the

future hopes of our country.

• Freedom can never be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell

your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have

unbounded faith and hope in yourself.

• “My hope of the future lies in the youths of character, intelligent,

renouncing all for the service of others, and obedient – good to themselves

and the country at large”

• “Act on the educated young men, bring them together, and organise them.

Great things can be done by great sacrifices only. No selfishness, no name,

no fame, yours or mine, nor my Master's even! Work, work the idea, the

plan, my boys, my brave, noble, good souls - to the wheel, to the wheel put

your shoulders!”

• “Please everybody without becoming a hypocrite and without being a

coward. Hold on to your own ideas with strength and purity, and whatever

obstructions may now be in your way, the world is bound to listen to you in

the long run. . . .”

• "Talk to yourself once in a day…Otherwise you may miss meeting an

EXCELLENT person in this World"

• “It is very easy to point out the defects of institutions, all being more or less

imperfect, but he is the real benefactor of humanity who helps the

individual to overcome his imperfections under whatever institutions he

may live.”

• Onward! Upon ages of struggle a character is built. Be not discouraged. One

word of truth can never be lost; for ages it may be hidden under rubbish,

but it will show itself sooner or later. Truth is indestructible, virtue is

indestructible, purity is indestructible.

Nothing will avail in our country without setting a glowing and living

example before the people. What we want are some young men who will

renounce everything and sacrifice their lives for their country's sake. We

should first form their lives and then some real work can be expected".

• “Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is

CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.”

• I stand for truth. Truth will never ally itself with falsehood. Even if all the

world should be against me, Truth must prevail in the end.

• “Learn everything that is good from others, but bring it in, and in your own

way absorb it; do not become others. Do not be dragged away out of this

Indian life; do not for a moment think that it would be better for India if all

the Indians dressed, ate, and behaved like another race.”

• “We have to bear in mind that we are all debtors to the world & the world

does not owe us anything. It is a great privilege for all of us to be allowed to

do anything for the world. In helping the world we really help ourselves.”

• Let your preparations be wise, correct and of such kind that will lead to

your true welfare, supreme good and lasting satisfaction and

happiness. This must engage your active, enthusiastic attention throughout

the period of your youth life.

• Supreme value of youth period is incalculable and indescribable. Youth life

is the most precious life. Youth is the best time. The way in which you

utilize this period will decide the nature of coming years that lie ahead of

you.

• “Practice virtue, persevere in virtue. Become established in virtue. Shine

as an embodiment of noblest virtue and heroic adherence to

goodness. Youth is meant for this grand process. Youth life is the active

development and fulfillment of these processes.”

• Brave, bold people, these are what we want. What we want is vigor in the

blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not

softening namby-pamby ideas. Avoid all these. Avoid all mystery

• “Youth means to place your firm confidence in yourself & exercise your

hopeful determination and resolution and willing good intentions in this

beautiful task of self-culture. This will truly bring supreme satisfaction and

fulfillment not only to you, but also to all concerned.”

• “Practise virtue, persevere in virtue. Become established in virtue. Shine as

an embodiment of noblest virtue and heroic adherence to goodness. Youth

is meant for this grand process. Youth life is the active development and

fulfillment of these processes.”

• Supreme value of youth period is incalculable and indescribable. Youth life

is the most precious life. Youth is the best time. The way in which you

utilize this period will decide the nature of coming years that lie ahead of

you.

• True progress is slow but sure. Work among those young men who can

devote heart and soul to this one duty — the duty of raising the masses of

India. Awake them, unite them, and inspire them with this spirit of

renunciation; it depends wholly on the young people of India.

• “Your country requires heroes; be heroes; your duty is to go on working,

and then everything will follow of itself.”

• “We must be always ready to sit at the feet of all, for, mark you, every one

can teach us great lessons…At the same time we must not forget that we

have also to teach a great lesson to the world.”

• Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you

sleep? Let us call and call, till the god within answers to the call. What more

is in life? What greater work?

• ‘Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.’ Be of good cheer and

believe that we are selected by the Lord to do great things, and we will do

them.

• My boy, when death is inevitable, is it not better to die like heroes than as

stocks and stones? And what is the use of living a day or two more in this

transitory world? It is better to wear out than to rust out — specially for the

sake of doing the least good to others

• “This is the time to decide your future - while you possess the energy of

youth, not when you are worn out and jaded, but in the freshness and 

vigour of youth. 

Work – this is the time; for the freshest, the untouched,

and unsmelled flowers alone are to be laid at the feet of the Lord”

• “When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our

nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work. The energy

which ought to have gone out as work is spent as mere feeling, which

counts for nothing. It is only when the mind is very calm and collected that

the whole of its energy is spent in doing good work.”

• Go, all of you, wherever there is an outbreak of plague or famine, or

wherever the people are in distress, and mitigate their sufferings…Preach

this ideal from door to door, and you will yourselves be benefited by it at

the same time that you are doing good to your country. On you lie the

future hopes of our country.

• We have not done badly in the past, certainly not. Our society is

not bad but good, only I want it to be better still. Not from error to truth,

nor from bad to good, but from truth to higher truth, from good to better,

best. I tell my countrymen that so far they have done well — now is the

time to do better.

• “Be not afraid, my children. Look not up in that attitude of fear towards

that infinite starry vault as if it would crush you. Wait! In a few hours more,

the whole of it will be under your feet. Wait, money does not pay, nor

name; fame does not pay, nor learning. It is love that pays; it is character

that cleaves its way through adamantine walls of difficulties.”

• “Be strong, my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to

Heaven through football than through the study of the Gita. These are bold

words; but I have to say them, for I love you…You will understand the Gita

better with your biceps, your muscles, a little stronger. You will understand

the mighty genius and the mighty strength of Krishna better with a little of

strong blood in you.”

• “A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in

a year than a mob in a century.”

• “The infinite future is before you, and you must always remember that

each word, thought, and deed, lays up a store for you and that as the bad

thoughts and bad works are ready to spring upon you like tigers, 

so also 

there is the inspiring hope that the good thoughts and good deeds are

ready with the power of a hundred thousand angels to defend you always

and forever.”

• “The earth is enjoyed by heroes—this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero.

Always say, “I have no fear."

• My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them

will come my workers!