They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.
Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.
Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.
I remember I had to go and ask my mom for groceries sometimes because I wasn't the best person with budgeting. I had to learn the hard way, but you live and learn. It builds character and strength.
Oh, I'm developing a beautiful character! It droops a bit under cold and frost, but it does grow fast when the sun shines. That's the way with everybody. I don't agree with the theory that adversity and sorrow and disappointment develop moral strength. The happy people are the ones who are bubbling over with kindliness.
You think football builds character. It does not. It reveals character.
Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.
Strength of body, strength of mind, strength of character, qualities to be admired in any person.
The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.
It builds character, it builds chemistry, when you're fighting amongst each other and able to brush it off and still talk and still have fun with each other.
Strength of character and inner fortitude, however, are decisive factors. The confidence of the man in the ranks rests upon a man's strength of character.
But borrowing strength builds weakness.
It's empowering to find a workout that builds strength and grace.
Every character that I play, even if it's a homemaker, there is an inherent, innate strength in her - you can find strength in every facet of a female personality. It doesn't just come from the physical strength of a woman.
Achievement builds character.
My brother said that at Eton, students were told caning builds character. I suppose girls are caned less because we aren't thought to have much character." "Which is the sort of thing males say when they don't know any women.