Best Character Building 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.

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

You have something special, you have GREATNESS within you!

Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.

Everything was just so spot on and character-building for me in terms of creating Celia [Bryant]. The ability to get to wear all these vintage pieces and immerse yourself in that world and get to wear all these amazing hats. And the shoes!

Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.

HIV is certainly character-building. It’s made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I’d rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character.

Character is simply habit long continued.

The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

Poverty’s potential for character building is far overrated.

A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose.

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.

Give your children regular, daily doses of Vitamin N. This vital nutrient consists simply of the most character-building two-letter word in the English language No…Unfortunately, many, if not most, of today’s children suffer from Vitamin N deficiency. They’ve been overindulged by well-meaning parents who’ve given them far too much of what they want and far too little of what they truly need.

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.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

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.

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.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

I spent a lot of time playing in miserable places that were not a lot of fun. Somebody once said it is character building and I was like: My character is just fine.

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group Groups of people from divergent ethnic and cultural backgrounds working in some sense together [is] surely a humanizing and character building experience. If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.

There’s a fine line between character building and soul destroying.