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Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.

Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.

Swami Vivekananda
Wall, Character, Names

If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions.

Swami Vivekananda
Character, Men, Judging
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.21, Advaita Ashrama

Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.

Swami Vivekananda
Character, Men, Reform
Swami Vivekananda (2011). “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, p.14, Duncan Baird Publishers

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

Swami Vivekananda
Inspiring, Character, Long
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.22, Advaita Ashrama

Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

Swami Vivekananda
Real, Character, People
"Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

The road to gooď is the roughest and steepest in the universe. It is a wonder that so many succeed, no wonder that so many fall. Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

Swami Vivekananda
Fall, Character, Succeed
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.22, Advaita Ashrama

Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life. We must have life-building, man-making, character-makin g, assimilation of ideas. If you have assimilated five ideas and made them your life and character, you have more education than any man who has got by heart a whole library.

Swami Vivekananda
Running, Heart, Character

No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors are the common weakness of humanity and should never be counted in estimating a person’s character.

Swami Vivekananda
Character, Errors, Humanity

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

Swami Vivekananda
Country, Lying, Character
Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.165, Vivekananda Kendra

Two things control man's character; Strength and Pity

Swami Vivekananda
Character, Men, Two

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

Swami Vivekananda
Character, Greatness, Men
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.21, Advaita Ashrama

I pity the Hindu who does not see the beauty in Jesus Christ's character. I pity the Christian who does not reverence the Hindu Christ.

Swami Vivekananda
Christian, Jesus, Character
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.138, Advaita Ashrama

It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.

Swami Vivekananda
Struggle, Character, Humanity
"Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

In the English character, the "give and take" policy, the business principle of the trader, is principally inherent.

Swami Vivekananda
Business, Character, Giving
Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.32, Vivekananda Kendra

Those who have succeeded in attaching or detaching their minds at will have succeeded in Pratyahara, which means gathering towards, checking the outgoing powers of the mind, freeing it from the thralldom of the senses. When we can do this, we shall really possess character; then alone we shall have taken a long step towards freedom. Before that, we are mere machines.

Swami Vivekananda
Taken, Character, Mean

Never forget that a man is made great and perfect as much by his faults as by his virtues. So we must not seek to rob a nation of its character, even if it could be proved that the character was all faults.

Swami Vivekananda
Character, Men, Perfect
Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

We want the education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet.

Swami Vivekananda
Character, Feet, Mind
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.297, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

Arise! Arise! A tidal wave is coming! Onward! Men and women, down to the Chandala (Pariah) - all are pure in his eyes. Onward! Onward! There is no time to care for name, or fame, or Mukti, or Bhakti! We shall look to these some other time. Now in this life let us infinitely spread his lofty character, his sublime life, his infinite soul. This is the only work - there is nothing else to do.

Swami Vivekananda
Character, Eye, Men
Swami Vivekananda (2007). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

Swami Vivekananda
Character, Men, Ideas
Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.95, Vivekananda Kendra

We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will still continue to exist until man's character changes.

Swami Vivekananda
Country, Character, Men
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.290, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

The fault with all religions like Christianity is that they have one set of rules for all. But Hindu religion is suited to all grades of religious aspiration and progress. It contains all the ideals in their perfect form. For example, the ideal of Shanta or blessedness is to be found in Vasishtha; that of love in Krishna; that of duty in Rama and Sita; and that of intellect in Shukadeva. Study the characters of these and of other ideal men. Adopt one which suits you best.

Swami Vivekananda
Religious, Character, Men
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2614, Manonmani Publishers

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