President George W. Bush

Volunteers provide friendship and support to young people who are facing challenging situations, serve as positive role models, and help to instill important values, goals, and skills

J. Mario Mcleod of Mentoring Partnership of Southwestern Pennsylvania

Ten-thousand young people in Allegheny County are in need of mentors.

Bender Management Team

Volunteerism - We believe the greatest way to build character is by helping others; this is not preferred, but expected.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People seem not to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character

James Moffatt

A man's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character - how he makes it and how he spends it.

Anonymous

Character, not circumstances, make the man.

Anonymous

The happiness of every country depends on the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Helen Keller

Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Vince Havner

America was built not by politicians running for something, but by statesmen standing for something.

Kurt Vonnegut

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

James A. Michener

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries

D. L. Moody

Character is what you are in the dark.