Narendranath Datta, who is well known as Swami Vivekananda, was born on January 12^th, 1863, in Kolkata. On account of his birth anniversary, let us recollect some of his INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES to understand and incorporate those great principles in our lives.Here are the top 3 Quotes of the spiritual master, Swami Vivekananda, which would be an ocean of inspiration to us.

1. Arise! Awake! And stop not until the goal is reached.

            This is a very famous quote that inspires each one of us to be successful in our lives. Most of us fall under the category of setting goals and beginning to work towards them with a great sense of enthusiasm.But sometimes the initiative in being persistent enough to accomplish our goals might fade as many may tend to lose the enthusiasm with the failures during the journey.This quote  make us achieve success without  stopping us from set backs incurring during the journey .

2. The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

         This is indeed a great quote. Life is a journey filled with happiness and sorrows. The struggles we confront must make us stronger and not weaker. Swami Vivekananda compares this journey of life with a gymnasium where one gets a chance to tone one’s body by struggling physically. It also requires a lot of mental strength.Similarly our journey in this world should make us stronger and aid us to reach great heights.

3. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

            In this world of multitasking we prefer to work on multiple things at a time or multiple things at different time dimensions. But Swami Vivekananda says if our goal is fixed and our effort towards reaching that one goal is sincere we will attain it provided our thoughts do not diversify. Our thoughts must be fixed only upon the goal set and should never change  from time to time.When the mind ,body and soul are trained  to achieve the goal it will lead to success without failure. Distractions  lead to lack of quality hence focus is the key to success

These Quotes can be imbibed by the youth of today in respect of his birthday which is celebrated as the NATIONAL YOUTH DAY on January 12th.