I watched them tearing a building down,
A gang of men in a busy town.
With a ho-heave-ho and a lusty yell,
They swung a beam, and the side wall fell.
I asked the foreman: "Are these skilled--
And the men you'd hire if you had to build?"
He gave me a laugh and said: "No, indeed!
Just common labor is all I need.
I can wreck in a day or two
What builders have taken a year to do."
And I thought to myself as I went my way,
Which of these roles have I tried to play?
Am I a builder who works with care
Measuring life by a rule and square?
Am I shaping my deeds to a well made Plan,
Patiently doing the best I can?
Or am I a wrecker, who walks the town
Content with the labor of tearing down?

Edgar A. Guest

Tag: character-building

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Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

Erasmus

Tag: knowledge children youth responsibility upbringing impressions character-building molding

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I believe the main purpose of life is to accept with gratitude what you've been blessed with so that you may use those gifts to mold yourself into the best person you can possibly be. Learning to discern things of true value from those of little or no worth is part of the process.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Tag: life success learning value gratitude worth purpose-of-life achieving richelle character-building richelle-goodrich

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Life is a character-building opportunity that we all volunteered for.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Tag: life character volunteer purpose-of-life richelle character-building richelle-goodrich

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The writer's characters must stand before us with a wonderful clarity, such continuous clarity that nothing they do strikes us as improbable behavior for just that character, even when the character's action is, as sometimes happens, something that came as a surprise to the writer himself. We must understand, and the writer before us must understand, more than we know about the character; otherwise neither the writer nor the reader after him could feel confident of the character's behavior when the character acts freely.

John Gardner

Tag: fiction character understand character-development know character-building

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