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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
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
Poverty's potential for character building is far overrated. -- Steve Perry
A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose. -- Kristin Cashore
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
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
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. -- Diana Krall
Whatever form it takes, camping is earthy, soul enriching and character building, and there can be few such satisfying moments as having your tent pitched and the smoke rising from your campfire as the golden sun sets on the horizon--even if it's just for a fleeting moment before the rain spoils everything. -- Pippa Middleton
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. -- Carl Sagan
Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Engaging solely to validate your opinion takes away from the character building process. -- Unarine Ramaru
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
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
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
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. -- Randy Shilts
A mentor is a person, an expert in a specific area of endeavour who trains, guides and observes a less experienced person to also become an expert through support, advice, and involvement in character building opportunities. -- Israelmore Ayivor
My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or zapping another into smithereens on page after page. They are dull and ugly and show no interesting stories or models of conflict resolution or character building. -- Russell Smith
A doctrine-teaching, character-building university, the Brigham Young University is dedicated to the building of character and faith, for character is higher than intellect . . . . We are men of God first, men of letters second, men of science third, and noted men fourth, men of rectitude rather than academic competence. . . . Our academic training must be as impeccable as our lives. -- Spencer W. Kimball
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. -- John Rosemond
When I was in school, sport was given utmost importance. I think it's fantastic for character building, for team playing, and I think it's a great profile for a nation. One in every six people on Earth is an Indian, and I look forward to the day when we can compete with the heavyweights of the sporting world and do well in the medal tally. -- Abhishek Bachchan
Clothing is the first step to building a character. -- Sylvester Stallone
Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character. -- Robert Foster Bennett
Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through. -- Matthew Fox
I tend to spend a lot of time building characters that the reader will believe in and sympathize with. -- Brian Keene
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character. -- Joseph Goebbels
Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character. -- Robert Foster Bennett
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
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
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
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
Reputation is an invisible force that works for or against you based on the efforts you put to persevere building your character -- Hiyamedia
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
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
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
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

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