Best Building Character Quotes

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

A good character is the best tombstone.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Character is simply habit long continued.

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Martial arts is not about fighting; it’s about building character.

Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get a crash course in sexual orientation.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent.

Keep doing the right. God is building character in you, and you are passing that test. Remember, the greater the struggle, the greater the reward.

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It’s not hard. Character is doing what’s right when nobody’s looking.

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

Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking.

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by, and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.

Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it’s the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece – by thought, choice, courage, and determination.

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

… the basic principles of the military services are unchangeable. Courage and candor, obedience and comradeship, love of fatherland and loyalty to the State: these are ever the distinguishing characteristics of the soldier and sailor. Building character through intelligent training and education is always the first and greatest goal.

Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it’s the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with the challenge we need to develop tolerance, patience, and compassionthree virtues essential for building character, developing peace of mind, and bringing us true happiness.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.