Build Your Character Quotes

#1. You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.

Carlos Ghosn

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.

Austin O'Malley

#5. Being a good loser helps build character, provides valuable lessons, and helps you become mentally prepared for your next challenge.

Frank Sonnenberg

#6. I think the more depth you build into the characters, and the more you see where they came from, the more fun you can have. Setting up different characters in different relationships is always helpful as you move forward.

Rob McElhenney

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. For it is often the hardest tasks that build the most character.

Jody Hedlund

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Great persons are great because of good, strong foundations on which they were able to build a character ...

Alfred Armand Montapert

#18. 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

#19. Spend more time building your character than trying to build your platform.

Christine Caine

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. I'm like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character.

Andrew Lincoln