Swami Sivananda Quotes

Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.

Good character improves every aspect of a person’s life.

Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can't change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing

That is why success and fruitfulness depend as much upon focusing on the "who" you are as much as the "what" of the work you do. Invest in your character, and it will give you the returns that you are looking for by only investing in the work itself. You can't do the latter without the former.

If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

What will tell in the end will be character and not a knowledge of letters.

One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece - by thought, choice, courage, and determination.

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.

The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.

Watch your character for your character is your destiny.

She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, 'truth, reverence, and good will,' then her friend Friedrich Bhaer was not only good, but great.

It's a real luxury to be able to develop with your character.

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.

Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful.

It is not in everyone's power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.

Character is the one thing we make in this world and take with us into the next.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by how one thinks and acts.

the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.