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Quote To Ponder ~Jim Ryun
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” ~Jim Ryun Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Montesquieu
“I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to execute myself.” ~Montesquieu Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Francis Bacon
“Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength; of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter much less. Self-reliance and self-denial will teach a man to drink out of his own cistern, and eat his own sweet-bread, and to learn and labor truly to get his own living,… Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Mark Coleman
“What exactly is mindfulness? The simplest definition is ‘clear awareness.’ It is the capacity to be present, consciously knowing what is happening in your experience moment by moment.” ~Mark Coleman Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Epictetus
“If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.” ~Epictetus Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Louis Kossuth
“Humility is the part of wisdom, and is most becoming in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness.” ~Louis Kossuth Continue reading
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Self-Made Men
From the speech, “Self-Made Men,” 1859 ~Frederick Douglass | Reposted from Art of Manliness That there is, in more respects than one, something like a stoicism in this title, I freely admit. Properly speaking, there are in the world no such men as self-made men. That term implies an individual independence of the past and… Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Orison Swett Marden
“This is the test your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?” ~Orison Swett Marden Continue reading
