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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The Choice of Hercules
Editor’s Note: This excerpt appeared in Jan. 9, 2016 on AOM From the Memorabilia By Xenophon, c. 371 B.C. When Hercules was in that part of his youth in which it was natural for him to consider what course of life he ought to pursue, he one day retired into a desert, where the silence Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Calvin Coolidge
“Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.” ~Calvin Coolidge Continue reading
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The Strenuous Life
Excerpt from The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses, 1902 By Theodore Roosevelt I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Samuel Smiles
“The idle pass through life leaving as little trace of their existence as foam upon water or smoke upon air; whereas the industrious stamp their character upon their age, and influence not only their own but all succeeding generations.” ~Samuel Smiles Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Paulo Coelho
“The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.“~Paulo Coelho Continue reading
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Clint Eastwood: What I’ve Learned
Clint Eastwood: What I’ve Learned Actor, 78 BY CAL FUSSMAN Born in San Francisco and raised throughout northern California, Eastwood attended Los Angeles City College under the G. I. Bill and served as mayor of Carmel, California from 1986 to 1988. In the first place, I was taller than most kids in my classes. In Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~James Terry White
“It is not necessary for a man to be actively bad in order to make a failure in life; simple inaction will accomplish it. Nature has everywhere written her protest against idleness; everything which ceases to struggle, which remains inactive, rapidly deteriorates. It is the struggle toward an ideal, the constant effort to get higher Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Billy Graham
“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of other are stiffened. “ ~Billy Graham Continue reading
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