Building Quote by Henry Cavill

In a movie, a book, or a play, a character doesn't live in a vacuum. She is subject to pressures from the world outside…

— James Franco

A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents.

— L. Tom Perry

As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.

— Alain de Botton

“Shouldn't an important part of discovering yourself be discovering what you family was like? Whichever side you favor in the nature versus nurture argument,…

— Quinn Cummings

Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.

— Anne Frank

Nothing about character is hereditary. Everyone, regardless of social background, financial status, race, or sex, enters the world with an equal opportunity to become…

— Michael Josephson

What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make happen to…

— Nancy Kress

Every articulate family ... generates its own stories, explanations and myths to illuminate the differences in temperament and talent among its children, the lines…

— Elizabeth Fishel

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.

— Marcel Proust

Neither heredity nor environment determine character. But whether we give in to or overcome the negative messages we are exposed to as we wend…

— Michael Josephson

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…

— Anne Frank