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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. -- Rick Perry
Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character. -- Robert Foster Bennett
If we don't invest now in building character into children we will surely invest more tomorrow in trying to repair adults. -- Michael Josephson
Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down. -- Florence King
When it comes to building character, wealth, good looks, athletic ability and even a high IQ are more likely to be impediments than advantages. -- Michael Josephson
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. -- Joel Osteen
I had a lot of coaches growing up that were very hard on the kids in the name of building character, but it could have the opposite effect on kids. -- Steve Carell
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. -- Dalai Lama
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. -- Florence King
Your character is your destiny. Building character is a task for the brave and dedicated. There are no shortcuts when it comes to building character. If you wish to cure minimalism in your own life, to develop a complete commitment to excellence and an absolute rejection of mediocrity, the question you need to start asking yourself is, "What is the most I can do?" -- Matthew Kelly
Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character. -- Robert Foster Bennett
I tend to spend a lot of time building characters that the reader will believe in and sympathize with. -- Brian Keene
... 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. -- Erich Raeder
Clothing is the first step to building a character. -- Sylvester Stallone
There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying. -- Colin Hay
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through. -- Matthew Fox
Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives. -- Edwin Louis Cole
From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences. -- Christopher Alexander
I loved being on stage. I was in elementary school when I started, so I couldn't say that it was about the building of characters. -- Katie Cassidy
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?' -- John Sandford
I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role. -- Beatrice Dalle
I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen. -- Keenen Ivory Wayans
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. -- David Brooks
The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course. -- Sue Grafton
The skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan - a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and crown - has remained remarkably consistent throughout the history of this building type. -- Martin Filler
What you wear can be such an indicator of so many things. You know, how you feel, how you want others to perceive you. So, that is an absolutely essential part of building a character. -- Oscar Isaac
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
I'm building a career as big as humanly possible so I can be in a 'Star Wars' project. My life goal is to have a character in the 'Star Wars' universe, film or other media. I just want to go to my grave knowing I played some character or some character based on my likeness was part of that world. -- Rahul Kohli
Poverty's potential for character building is far overrated. -- Steve Perry
Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character. -- Joseph Goebbels
Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is a character-building opportunity that we all volunteered for. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas. -- Swami Vivekananda
The end of all knowledge must be the building up of character. -- Cesar Chavez
Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
Spend more time building your character than trying to build your platform. -- Christine Caine
Engaging solely to validate your opinion takes away from the character building process. -- Unarine Ramaru
My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives. -- Christopher Bollen
Years of live storytelling and character acting have helped me with building vivid locations and scenes. -- David Crabb
A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose. -- Kristin Cashore
The place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, our own character. -- Stephen Covey
It's important to know the kind of character that you need to be building up to, throughout the series. -- Holliday Grainger
I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building. -- Steve Jobs
Reputation is an invisible force that works for or against you based on the efforts you put to persevere building your character -- Hiyamedia
The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power. -- Orison Swett Marden
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity. -- Swami Vivekananda
Truth telling is the first building block of character -- a quality that seems to be getting rarer and rarer in all-forgiving America. -- Mona Charen
Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber. -- Rick Warren
You know what would help this boy?" Demeter mused. "Farming." Persephone rolled her eyes. "Mother-" "Six months behind a plow. Excellent character building. -- Rick Riordan
When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him? -- John Sandford
The greatest work in all the world is the building of men and women of character. Without character there is not much that is worthwhile. -- Ezra Taft Benson
And I thought, you know, a little gender confusion makes a better person. A little adversity in life at an early age. It's character building. -- Lesley Gore

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