If we want to have a good, happy, and successful life, we need to build our character.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. It means that if you have the knowledge, you can do many things.

Knowledge makes you powerful. But if you have character, people will respect you.

Character gives you the courage to keep your head up with pride and honor, something that knowledge will not always give. Knowledge empowers an individual and gives him the liberty to seek his own path by making rational decisions, Character defines a person and also how we remember the person.

This is what Gandhi means by knowledge without character—a lack of connection between what we know to be in everyone's long-range best interest and our ability to act on that knowledge.

It has become the cornerstone of much of our business and our lives. Having a good character provides them with the required tools to help them more than what they gain academically. A good character fosters the development of responsible and ethical individuals because it educates them about good values that people need to co-exist with others. Good character education can provide ground rules for life for adults and young people, and it stresses the importance of helping children learn and practice behaviors that reflect universal ethical values.

Character education helps children and youth become: Conscious of the right thing to do. Respect is important to teams and leaves behind legacies.

Respect comes from the rich and poor, the young and old, and the powerful and powerless.

Power is assigned, re-assigned, and completely lost on retirement day.

Respect is earned, non-transferable, and endures for natural life and beyond. Power is more of a blanket term for influence and authority, whereas respect is something that has to be earned. In management, power is when permission is granted to you to lead a team by an organization, whereas respect is something that you are granted by or earned from your team.

Being a person with good character means you act with honesty, respect, responsibility, caring, and other "good" traits. Imagine putting a gun in the hand of a person who has never held a gun.

Or imagine your 16 young sons who want to drive your corvette to see what it can do. Putting this much power in the hands of a person with no experience is like giving someone knowledge and no character.

Being respected by important people in our lives growing up teaches us how to be respectful toward others.

Respect means that you accept somebody for who they are, even when they're different from you or you don't agree with them.

Respect in your relationships builds feelings of trust, safety, and well-being. It should actually respect first, followed by power, and finally, money, but I guess that wouldn't sound too catchy in a song.

The reason why the money, power, and respect path is flawed is that typically when you put money above all, it translates into ego and hatred, not power and respect.

Character is arguably the most important thing in life because it determines how we think, which then determines how we speak and act, which then determines the results we get in life.

The Final Takeaway: If we want to have a good, happy, and successful life, we need to build our character.

Credits: Abdullah Al Jannath Newaz (Antu)

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