C. C. says, "COURAGE means meeting a challenge without giving in to fear   ."
 

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved."
---Helen Keller

"Good character...is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece--by thought, choice, courage, and determination."
---John Luther

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.
---J.C. Watts

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
---Abraham Lincoln

The fate of the country . . . does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.
---David Henry Thoreau

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
---James A. Michener

Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
---Horace Greeley

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.
---Cavett Robert

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
---Phillips Brooks

Only those in the last stage of disease could believe that children are true judges of character.
---W. H. Auden

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
---Ronald Reagan

Characters live to be noticed. People with character notice how they live.
---Nancy Moser

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
---Hosea Ballou

You are only what you are when no one is looking.
---Robert C. Edwards

If I keep my good character I shall be rich enough.
---Platonicus

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
---Tryon Edwards

Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young men, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.
---Edmund Burke

Character is what you are in the dark.
---Dwight L. Moody

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
---Faith Baldwin

Property may be destroyed. Money may lose its purchasing power. But character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in your life, you will have been all of these.
 -- George Washington Carver

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
-- Anne Frank