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.
Did Vivekananda say "Stand up and fight, you are the..."?
Paraphrase
Partly. The shared line is a reworded version of what he said in The Cosmos: the Microcosm (Complete Works, vol 2). A reworded version of a line in The Microcosm (vol 2). "Stand up and fight" and "the world is yours" are not in it.
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“Stand up and fight, you are the creator of your destiny; the world is yours.”
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Is "Stand up and fight, you are the..." in the Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda?
Partly. The shared line is a reworded version of what he said in The Cosmos: the Microcosm (Complete Works, vol 2).
How do you check a Vivekananda quote?
Search a distinctive phrase in the Complete Works (Advaita Ashrama, nine volumes; the text is on ramakrishnavivekananda.info and Wikisource). If only quote sites carry it, with no volume or lecture named, treat it as unverified.
Sources and method
Matched against The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Mayavati Memorial Edition, vols 1 to 8 (9,239 paragraphs, Bengali translations checked separately), with Python difflib. In his words: 90 or more out of 100. Paraphrase: 70 to 90. Not in his works: under 70, and no hit in a phrase search of Wikisource across all volumes, including vol 9. This line scored 72.