We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.
~ C.S. Lewis
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Traitors in our midst →
Progress and change →
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
~ George Bernard Shaw
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I shall succeed →
I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
~ James A. Garfield
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Commitment means →
Commitment means staying loyal to what you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in has left you.
~ unknown
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Harmonious proportions →
The superior man is he who develops, in harmonious proportions, his moral, intellectual and physical nature. This should be the end at which men of all classes should aim, and it is this only which constitutes real greatness.
~ Douglas Jerrold
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Play a poor hand well →
Life is not always a matter of holding good cards,
~ Jack London
but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Protest Against Idleness →
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; that which remains inactive, rapidly deteriorates. It is the struggle toward an ideal, the constant effort to get higher and further, which develops manhood and character.
~ James Terry White
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Fitness →
Fitness is not about being better than someone else,
~ unknown
it’s about being better than you used to be.
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Virtus →
Without an adversary, virtus shrivels. We see how great and how viable virtus is when, by endurance, it shows what it is capable of.
~ Seneca
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Specialization is for insects →
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
~ Robert Heinlein
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