Builds Character Quotes

#1. I've made mistakes but the beauty of life is that each regret builds character and makes us a better person

Vitor Belfort

#2. You think football builds character. It does not. It reveals character.

Bill Courtney

#3. Everyone in this world is dealt a different hand-some better, some worse than others-but what's more important is how you play that hand. This is what builds character. And with great character comes great reward.

Christine Ha

#4. There are two kinds of family. There's the family of your flesh, and the one of your heart. One builds character, the other rewards it.

Sheila Roberts

#5. Growing up as a girl is always traumatizing, especially when you have the deadly combination of greasy skin and getting your boobs at ten. But I think it's good to grow up that way. It builds character.

Tina Fey

#6. I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

Mo Rocca

#7. They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.

Curtis Joseph

#8. True leadership is often the mantle of the meek, who are rarely are prepared for such responsibility; which builds character in those who embrace it.

M.J. Stoddard

#9. Pressure builds character and allows to handle what else is coming.

Sarah Palin

#10. Dad: Honey, have you seen my glasses? I cant find them. Mom: I haven't seen them. Calvin: (with glasses, to Dad) Calvin, go do something you hate! Being miserable builds character!

Bill Watterson

#11. Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

Brooke Shields

#12. Flawed Human Parents + Shit Life Throws At You = Childhood That 'Builds Character.

Deb Caletti

#13. Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.

T.I.

#14. Bullying builds character like nuclear waste creates superheroes. It's a rare occurrence and often does much more damage than endowment.

Zack W. Van

#15. While determination builds character, quitting is habit forming.

Frank Sonnenberg

#16. Suffering builds character. - Miranda Tate

Greg Cox

#17. You need to learn independence. You have to be independent - it builds character.

Mike Tyson

#18. Well," Etta said weakly, "she's always told me a good challenge builds character."
"Then we'll have an excess of it," he said dryly.

Alexandra Bracken

#19. I'd like to find whoever taught the Stump that extra work builds character and push him down the stairs, Neal told Kel at lunch.

Tamora Pierce

#20. The only fear that builds character, is the fear of God.

Anthony Liccione

#21. Ah, there you are," said Scarsbury. "George Lovelace was beside himself. He wanted to assemble a search party for you." Simon regretted his spiteful thoughts about George's horsemanship. "Let me guess," said Simon. "Everyone else said 'Nah, being left for dead builds character.

Cassandra Clare

#22. I don't need another 'adversity builds character' speech, Darren. That man is a chauvinistic pig. Where's your adversity?"
Darren raised a brow. "I'm looking at it.

Rachel E. Carter

#23. Nice. I like a little desperation in
a guy. It builds character.

Stacey Kade

#24. Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong.

Gail Devers

#25. I've never been part of the minority before, never have had to struggle to belong, so I figured I'd milk the experience for all it was worth. Don't they say adversity builds character?

Apol Lejano-Massebieau

#26. Concentrating when it's the hardest is what builds character

Barbara Delinsky

#27. My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about - having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

Kevin Hart

#28. Life is full of challenges. How you handle these challenges is what builds character. Never be afraid to be who you are.

Erin Brockovich

#29. What builds character? It's a commitment to integrity, hard work, honor and keeping your word. All of that comes straight out of the Sigma Nu Creed. The guy who wrote that meant it. The whole idea is to think about those words and make them a part of who you are.

Bill Courtney

#30. My brother said that at Eton, students were told caning builds character. I suppose girls are caned less because we aren't thought to have much character."
"Which is the sort of thing males say when they don't know any women.

Mary Jo Putney

#31. Stress builds character and failure breeds motivation. I guess I'm a Optimist.

Noel DeJesus

#32. Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.

Billy Dee Williams

#33. 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

#34. My success symbolizes loyalty, great friends, Dedication, hard work, routine builds character. In a world full of snakes, rats and scavengers

Nas

#35. Losing builds character. You know who said that? A loser! Guy who got his ass stomped every day, basketball, football, baseball, lose, lose, lose and lose. All right, I'm talking about me.

Christopher Titus

#36. FAMILY. The ties that bind. The cement that builds character, strength of purpose, mutual respect, values.

David R. Wommack

#37. Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.

George Henry Lewes

#38. But at the heart of character is the ability to restrain our desires. As a man grows in character, he builds the muscles of self-restraint.

Richard E. Simmons III

#39. No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes to work, he builds him up, adding a trait here, a trait there, which his model did not possess.

W. Somerset Maugham

#40. Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.

D. Todd Christofferson

#41. Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

Helen Gahagan Douglas

#42. I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame. Thus prudes, by characters o'erthrown, Imagine that they raise their own. Thus Scribblers, covetous of praise, Think slander can transplant the bays.

John Gay

#43. Over time, is it easier or harder to sustain your influence within your organization? With charisma alone, influence becomes increasingly more difficult to sustain. With character, as time passes, influence builds and requires less work to sustain.

John C. Maxwell

#44. There is a kind of wisdom that grows in the heart from living in places such as you have been. It builds integrity and strong character. ~Then'diel

K. Farrell St. Germain

#45. Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it.

Margaret Atwood

#46. Plot, or evolution, is life responding to environment; and not only is this response always in terms of conflict, but the really great struggle, the epic struggle of creation, is the inner fight of the individual whereby the soul builds up character.

William Wallace Cook

#47. I naturally gravitate to darker characters. Gotham. Batman's suit. It's all dark; he's very interesting. It all comes from his builds and guts.

David Finch

#48. The person who builds a character makes foes.

Neil Young

#49. Practice builds habits. Our habits are our character. When it comes to virtue, practice makes a very great difference - or rather, all the difference.

Eric Greitens

#50. Character builds on characters. Very few recognised them as a character, others should look for it until they get one.

Vikram Roy

#51. A vital team characteristic is the ability to overcome adversity. Any team acquires experience and endurance as it learns to fight back. This in turn builds the kind of character which seldom crumbles at a time of crisis or testing.

Tom Landry

#52. Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Faith Baldwin

#53. Everyone is gonna have a bad day, everyone is gonna have a bad game. The questions are: How do you recover? What builds your character? I decided one day early on in high school that I wanted to be great at basketball, not just a good basketball player.

Gilbert Arenas

#54. Haiku does not express emotion from the inside out by displaying the mind of a character. Haiku builds the emotional thrust, makes the artistic statement from the outside in, from the physical world to the mind of the reader.

Harley King

#55. That said, nothing builds reader involvement more surely than a character whose moral struggle pervades the tale. When readers hope, beg, and plead with you to let a character turn toward the light, you have readers where you want them. A character who is good is good; a character

Donald Maass

#56. It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.

Orison Swett Marden