People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death.

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.