Men won’t know

If boys don’t learn, men won’t know.

~ Douglas Wilson

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Opportunity

You know what lies outside your comfort zone?

Opportunity.

~ unknown

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Traitors in our midst

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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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,
but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

~ Jack London

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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,
it’s about being better than you used to be.

~ unknown

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