Quotes About How Character Is Built

#1. People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#2. Character is both formed and revealed by how one deals with everyday situations as well as extraordinary pressures and temptations. Like a well-made tower, character is built stone by stone, decision by decision.

Michael Josephson

#3. What will matter in the end is not what you bought but what you built; not what you got but what you gave; not what you learned by what you taught. What will matter is not your competence but your character.

Michael Josephson

#4. Character is built on every decision we make, especially those we make in secret.

Nicole Deese

#5. We are faced this year with the choice between the "work ethic" that built this Nation's character and the new "welfare ethic" that could cause that American character to weaken.

Richard M. Nixon

#6. I had the sets that meant so much to this character built - right in my home, especially the kitchen, which was important both for her character and for your introduction to her when Albert comes to visit.

Debbie Reynolds

#7. It is so rare as an actor to be allowed the chance to revisit a role and to go back to a character that you already built, and lived inside, and understood. To take it further to another stage is a huge privilege.

Tom Hiddleston

#8. To initiate the debugger, all you have to do is import the pdb built-in module and run its set_trace function. You'll often see this done in a single line so programmers can comment it out with a single # character.

Brett Slatkin

#9. Just continue in your calm, ordinary practice and your character will be built up.

Shunryu Suzuki

#10. Every time I've built character, I've regretted it.

Bill Watterson

#11. Assimilation of the fruits of each past life takes place before the spirit descends to rebirth, and consequently, the character generated is fully formed and readily expressed in the subtle, mobile mind-stuff of the Region of Concrete Thought, where the archetype of the coming dense body is built.

Max Heindel

#12. No matter how troubled a character's history, romance novels tell us, love can be built upon it, and happily-ever-after can result. What's more, the darker the past, the brighter the future - and the better the read.

Sarah MacLean

#13. Psychologically, I'll always be a fat girl because that's what my character is built on. I always got a buzz out of people telling me I was ugly. I went out of my way to un-beautify myself. I didn't want anyone's approval.

Alison Moyet

#14. The last element in drama is high stakes. War, of course, is life and death - survival, not only for the story's characters, but often for the society itself. That's why I'm drawn to stories that are built around wars, even if they're not technically "war stories."

Steven Pressfield

#15. A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a way. From straws like these, drawn from completely different sources, the fabric of a character may be built.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

#16. Every man is where he is by the law of his being; the thoughts which he has built into his character have brought him there, and in the arrangement of his life there is no element of chance, but all is the result of a law which cannot err.

James Allen

#17. The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his character.

Jean-Louis Barrault

#18. The character of Rocky was built on the idea that he was chosen to do something. That's why the first image in Rocky is the picture of Christ.

Sylvester Stallone

#19. To be the leading man it's about the celebrity and the looks, and it's tough to do that. People who do it great are people like Tom Cruise and Will Smith - they're built for that. I ain't. I'm more of a character guy.

Jamie Foxx

#20. Tanner: My dear Tavy, your pious English habit of regarding the world as a moral gymnasium built expressly to strengthen your character in leads you to think about your own confounded principles when you should be thinking about other people's necessities.

George Bernard Shaw

#21. I've read and traveled a lot in the Middle East, and I built on eyewitness accounts of horrific executions that would shape a boy's character and beliefs if he watched his father die that way. These are the stuff of which nightmares are made.

Terry Hayes

#22. The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.

Herbert Hoover

#23. The character to follow thru on commitments made to others is built by following thru on commitments made to self.

Orrin Woodward

#24. National character cannot be built by law. It is the sum of the moral fiber of its individuals.

Herbert Hoover

#25. Reputation is made in a moment; Character is built over a lifetime.

Elizabeth George

#26. Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#27. I moved to the east coast when everybody else was going to the west coast. I (then) chased it back toward the west coast. I built my career up by doing small roles (which led) to principal roles and getting bumped into main character roles.

Drew Waters

#28. Character is BUILT by repeatedly choosing the best over the easiest.

Casey Treat

#29. 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

#30. A perfect society is built upon mutual trust. Character is the source of that trust.

Sri Chinmoy

#31. I played a lot of ball and got hurt, stitches and this and that. That, sometimes they said, built character. I don't think it built anything.

Garry Marshall

#32. 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

#33. 'The Cape' is a really good comic! They invented the whole character, and now they've built a book of 'The Cape' for the show. When I was a kid, I used to love Batman, and I loved Spider-Man. My favorite was this guy called Judge Dredd. I know they made a movie of that in the '90s.

James Frain

#34. Your character is slowly built and quickly eroded. You're definitely influenced whatever you are immersed in and whatever you're around and what you're a part of.

Mark Martin