“Courage, born of self-confidence, is the prod which brings out the last ounce of reserve force.”

Orison Swett Marden
'Pushing to the Front', (1911)

"No quality of mind is more needful to success in all undertakings than courage, and by courage I mean not only courage to act but courage to think."

Prentice Mulford
'Thoughts are Things', (1889)

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."

Ambrose Redmoon [James Neil Hollingworth]
Author & Manager 'Quicksilver Messenger Service'

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."

Mark Twain

"Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion."

Aristotle
384BC-322BC)

"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!"

Theodore Roosevelt

"If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I'll tell you what you are. That determines your character. That is the most significant thing about you."

Dale Carnegie

"All the leaders I've met, worked with, and read about have had one thing in common. Along the way to becoming practitioners and masters of leadership, they transformed their character."

Joe MacInnis

"Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character."

Heraclitus
Greek Philosopher, 535BCE-475BCE