Character
“What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are.” ~C.S. Lewis
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Quote To Ponder ~Karl G. Maeser
“I have been asked what I mean by ‘word of honor.’ I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls – walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground – there is a possibility that in some way or another I might be able to escape; but Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Henry Ward Beecher
“A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.” ~Henry Ward Beecher Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Harry S. Truman
“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves … self-discipline with all of them came first.” ~Harry S. Truman 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 ~Saint Ignatius
“Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon.” ~Saint Ignatius Continue reading
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The Man In The Arena ~Theodore Roosevelt
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Victor Hugo
“People do not lack strength; they lack will.” ~Victor Hugo Continue reading
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