Character is the most effective means of persuasion.

Character is the ability to win an argument by keeping your mouth shut.

Character is impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Character is what Nature has engraven on us; can we then efface it?

Conviction is not easily reversed — We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them!

Conviction is that which convinces.

A Conviction is suspect to the degree that it is firm, for it indicates a life unmoved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Courage lies between cowardice and recklessness.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Courage is important — never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be