I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
~ George Washington
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Most enviable of all titles →
The mind could make you dance →
Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired… You’ve always got to make the mind take over and keep going.
~ George S. Patton, Jr.
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Nobody can give you freedom →
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
~ Malcolm X
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The power to destroy →
For each person there is a sentence – a series of words – which has the power to destroy them.
~ Philip K. Dick
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Virtuous. Wise. Bold. →
The way of a superior man is three-fold: Virtuous, he is free from anxieties; Wise, he is free from perplexities; Bold, he is free from fear.
~ Confucius
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Insist upon it →
People universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you are fortunate enough. But that’s not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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Ready servant of his mind →
A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; Whose passions are trained to be the servants of his will; Who enjoys the beautiful, loves truth, hates wrong, loves to do good, and respects others as himself.
~ John Ruskin
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Hit it harder →
At the end, when your legs are tired
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and your arms are giving out,
GET ANGRY.
Get angry that you are tired.
THEN HIT IT HARDER.
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Two questions →
There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is, “Where am I going?” and the second is, “Who will go with me?” If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.
~ Sam Keen
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What is a man? →
What is a man?
~ Paul Anka
What has he got?
If not himself,
then he has naught.
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