Top 100 Build Character Quotes
#1. An honest, sincerely stated compliment helps to build character; criticism destroys it.
Nathan Eldon Tanner
#2. I think it was coach Lombardi that said, 'Adversity doesn't build character, it reveals it.' And that's so true.
Mike Sherman
#3. Karate aims to build character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; it does not, however, guarantee it.
Yasuhiro Konishi
#4. I don't build character. I eliminate the people who don't have it.
Vince Lombardi
#6. Florence saw childhood as something fleeting to be enjoyed. I saw childhood as a training period, a time to build character and invest for the future.
Amy Chua
#7. We started a movement ... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people.
Andrew Shue
#8. Setbacks are what build character. They are what separate the lucky from the truly successful.
Cherie Carter-Scott
#9. Entrepreneurship does not build character; it reveals character.
Jeffrey Fry
#10. Money alone cannot build character or transform evil into good. It cries for full partnership with leaders of character and good will who value good tools in the creation and enlargement of life for Man.
Sebastian Spering Kresge
#11. I'll give my dad credit; he never claimed it was to build character or teach me the value of hard work. "Snowblowers are expensive," he used to say. "You're free.
Andy Weir
#12. As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#13. A defining reality for me is what Scripture teaches in Hebrews 12, that God is our father, and that a sign that he loves us is that he disciplines us, he takes us through hardship to build character in us that could not be shaped apart from difficulty.
Joshua Harris
#14. To me, obstacles in life build character. You have to be able to overcome adversity in order to succeed and appreciate the simple things life has to offer ... that's where most of my inspiration for writing and singing comes from.
Elliott Yamin
#15. If everything was going smoothly you would never build character.
Maria Sharapova
#16. 1.1.19.02.006: Team sports are mandatory in order to build character. Character is there to give purpose to team sports.
Jasper Fforde
#17. Sport does not just build character, it reveals it.
George F. Will
#18. When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
Candice Patton
#19. When so-called child's play turns hostile, and a child becomes a victim, it is time to act. Victims of cyberbullying do not choose to participate. Rather than build character, bullying can cause children to become anxious, fearful, unhappy, and even cause them to be physically sick.
Linda Sanchez
#20. Sports don't build character; they reveal it.
John Wooden
#21. I think being mean to people in high school is healthy. It's sort of like you're in this situation with all these other kids and sometimes you need to get your aggression out. And if you'd had people be mean to you before, it really does build character.
Lizzy Caplan
#22. Adversity does more than build character. It changes the way we see the world.
Michael R. French
#23. There are some times you win, and there are other times you build character.
Bob Coy
#24. You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
William J.H. Boetcker
#25. Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution.
Erin McCarthy
#27. A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.
Bobby Bowden
#28. Sports ideally teach discipline and commitment. They challenge you and build character for everything you do in life.
Howie Long
#29. In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.
Hilari Bell
#30. When you are in business for a long time, you go through good times and bad times. When you go through bad times, you learn to control costs, satisfy customers better, satisfy employees better and become more transparent. Therefore, you build character in the company.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#31. Sometimes suffering is just suffering," she told Gus. "It doesn't make you stronger. It doesn't build character. It only hurts.
Kate Jacobs
#32. Being a good loser helps build character, provides valuable lessons, and helps you become mentally prepared for your next challenge.
Frank Sonnenberg
#33. You don't get character because you're successful; you build character because of the hardships you face.
Herman Edwards
#34. Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.
Darrell Royal
#35. To build character of purpose and integrity is our high mark, and that cannot be done in a world where there are no adverse elements.
Vance Havner
#36. We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.
Gavin Newsom
#37. You build a character, a shell, and if you build it right, something comes to live inside it.
Elizabeth Hand
#38. I'm like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character.
Andrew Lincoln
#39. Obviously, with a CGI character, you're building a character in much the same way as a real creature is built. You build the bones, the skeletons, the muscles. You put layers of fat on. You put a layer of skin on which has to have a translucency, depending on what the character is.
Peter Jackson
#40. The difference between House M.D series and me is that I am real, he is just a character build by someone. BUT...?!
Deyth Banger
#41. When you are the central character in a seemingly boiling pit of "busy-ness" the time will come when the pace of decline cannot be countered. You build yourself the circumstances of ultimate failure by failing to grow, by failing to act on your learnings.
Tony Curl
#42. When you dream, all the scenery, characters, events, perils, and outcomes are built from your own consciousness, the darks and oppressions as well as the delights. Same with the world awake, though it takes you longer to build it.
Richard Bach
#43. People build up a picture of Johnny Depp as being some sort of weird pirate character. In reality he's incredibly nice ... one of the nicest people I've ever met.
Freddie Highmore
#44. I just love to be able to actually build a character.
Richard Madden
#45. All your scholarship would be in vain if at the same time you do not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions.
Mahatma Gandhi
#46. In all our perceptions, from vision to hearing, to the pictures we build of people's character, our unconscious mind starts from whatever objective data is available to us - usually spotty - and helps to shape and construct the more complete picture we consciously perceive.
Leonard Mlodinow
#47. If you want to build a positive attitude, then associate with people of high moral character and read books that lead you to positive thinking.
Shiv Khera
#48. Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity, we have a weak foundation upon which to build other Christlike characteristics.
L. Lionel Kendrick
#49. I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity should be cornerstones in your life. As a Senior DeMolay, as a father, the best advice I could ever give would be to take the high road in life, and you will be able to build trusting relationships.
Larry Wilcox
#50. I was offered some film roles, and I did not do them. It would have been interesting, but I have no regrets. I am where I am; I accept and embrace the mistakes because they're character-building and they build perspective and talent.
Peter Scolari
#51. Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.
Mahatma Gandhi
#52. Become Amish? If you admire our faith, strengthen yours. If you admire our sense of commitment, deepen yours. If you admire our community spirit, build your own. If you admire the simple life, cut back. If you admire deep character and enduring values, live them yourself.
Suzanne Woods Fisher
#53. You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.
Carlos Ghosn
#54. A nation of character is filled with citizens who gradually build lives based on the living awareness that their deeds are judged by eyes of unchanging truth, by a will that is the real measure of what is right, and therefore of what is good.
Alan Keyes
#55. I think people do get better as the movies go on sometimes, and I'm always happy that we're shooting out of order, so it's kind of scattered throughout the movie, and there isn't like a clear build in everyone finding their characters.
Seth Rogen
#56. Plot comes first. The plot is the archictecture of your novel. You wouldn't build a house without a plan. If I wrote without a plot, it would just be a pile of bricks. Characters are your servants. They must serve your plot.
Barbara Kingsolver
#57. Job's sickness and afflictions didn't build his character; they revealed the character he already had.
Praying Medic
#58. I try to master every facet of a character in order to build a safety net for myself, so I can go on to take more risks to create someone really distinct.
Jim Parsons
#59. We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape.
Fritz Todt
#60. Great persons are great because of good, strong foundations on which they were able to build a character ...
Alfred Armand Montapert
#61. I would never make up a character who didn't exist or an event that didn't transpire. If you're a real writer, you have other tools in your toolbox to build drama.
Koren Zailckas
#62. With a series, you build the character as you go. When you've got a shorter project or a film, you know the overall arc from the beginning.
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
#63. I like playing these awkward moments in between that build relationships. I don't ever want to play that character that grabs the girl and has my way with her. That's just not who that character is. If Daryl falls in love with you, he's going to love you for the rest of his life.
Norman Reedus
#64. You can't build rich lives simply by reading sermons or following abstract rules. Example is the best teacher. Moral improvement occurs most reliably when the heart is warmed,
David Brooks
#65. The first kind builds character. You cannot grow without this kind of problem, any more than you can build muscles without exercise.
John C. Wright
#66. I've always used my own personal emotions and things that I've gone through in my life to build a character. The work that I do before a film feels almost like therapy, between me and whoever I'm playing.
Kirsten Dunst
#67. Act in accordance with your true beliefs by spending your time on those things that will build and develop your character and help you become more Christlike. I hope none of you see life as primarily fun and games but rather as a time 'to prepare to meet God.'
Quentin L. Cook
#68. Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
Kurt Vonnegut
#69. At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible. We need to cultivate a deeply refined introspective sense, and build our relationship to learning around our nuance of character.
Joshua Waitzkin
#70. I really wanted the house to be a character. And I knew, I said, I'll produce that one, but if I direct it, I need to build a house.
Guillermo Del Toro
#71. Once a baby is born, the parents have around one and a half decades to build his or her character and fill the mind with vigour and virtues.
Abhijit Naskar
#72. Here was St. Augustine, the oldest city in the United States. How to build a hotel to meet the requirements of nineteenth century America and have it in keeping with the character of the place ? that was my hardest problem.
Henry Flagler
#73. The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.
Bo Bennett
#74. You must build your character before the age of 40 because there is a destiny you must discover at the age of 40.
Anyaele Sam Chiyson
#75. Nobody likes hard times, but it's the unpleasant experiences that are often the catalysts to build the character required for our destiny.
T.D. Jakes
#76. If you seem to yourself to be lacking in certain necessary qualities, if your character seems to lack strength, ask God to give you what you need - and He will. You can build any quality into your mentality by meditating upon that quality every day.
Emmet Fox
#77. Bring in the light and the evil goes in a moment. Build up your character, and manifest your real nature, the Effulgent, the Resplendent, the Ever-Pure, and call It up in everyone that you see.
Swami Vivekananda
#78. Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny.
Henry Hancock
#79. We are put in situations to build our character ... not destroy us.
Nick Vujicic
#80. When you die you say "Game Over" and that's all the game is over. You as an actor you die with this character stuff, but a new character is build.
Deyth Banger
#81. How then can you bring lasting change to your world? By building character and skill in the life of one person at a time. Then by enabling them to "pass it on"- to build the character and skill of another, and another,
Donald G. Doty
#83. People will follow you when you build the character to follow through.
Orrin Woodward
#84. We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for.
Sebastian Horsley
#85. For 'Inhuman,' it's a 'chess game' series. You have a lot of pieces moving different ways at once, and it's about what they do on their own and what happens when they collide into one another. It's about long-range planning, new character creation, and trying to really build things.
Charles Soule
#86. The fun for me is knowing what the other person is saying and what my character would be thinking at that time. On the stage you get the chance to do all that, to analyze and build a part, to react, to contribute something no one else can-not the author, not even the director.
Barry Nelson
#87. I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.
Jeff VanderMeer
#88. When you have a lot of fake selves, most of the time it's because you haven't had parents around so you try to build characters to protect yourself.
Benjamin Clementine
#89. Even if kids don't love gymnastics, if they start at any age with some classes, they can learn so many different things - they can build a lot of character, strength, flexibility, and courage. Hopefully, they can also develop a sense of fearlessness.
Nastia Liukin
#90. A lot of the jokes had some build-up to some nasty stuff. But most of it was all character situations leading to what the ultimate payoff would be for that character.
Shawn Wayans
#91. They throw their stones at you not expecting that you would catch them with a smile. But a wise soul knows that what life throws at you today, is only preparing you for a stronger tomorrow. After all, you can't build a castle without first laying down its foundations...
Seja Majeed
#92. Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear at the time, are precisely the kinds of experiences that stretch our understanding, build our character, and increase our compassion for others.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#93. I am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself.
Benjamin Harrison
#94. The heart must be renewed by divine grace, or it will be in vain to seek for purity of life. He who attempts to build up a noble, virtuous character independent of the grace of Christ is building his house upon the shifting sand.
Ellen G. White
#95. Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history.
Nicolas Cage
#96. IF" - I lie I am going to add the best features... the peoplea around = features will be taken to build the best character, then I am going to stick on the lie. This is the thingy which helps us to get out of...
Deyth Banger
#97. I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.
Uzo Aduba
#98. I'm Dr. David Hanson, and I build robots with character. And by that, I mean that I develop robots that are characters, but also robots that will eventually come to empathize with you.
David Hanson
#99. It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're going to be informed with in the future.
Frances Conroy
#100. We build our character from the bricks of habit we pile up day by day.
Zig Ziglar
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