Quotes

Men won’t know →

Published May 17, 2014  ·  All posts on May 17  ·  

If boys don’t learn, men won’t know.

~ Douglas Wilson

Elsewhere, this is 4a146. — slipbox

Opportunity →

Published May 11, 2014  ·  All posts on May 11  ·  

You know what lies outside your comfort zone?

Opportunity.

~ unknown

Elsewhere, this is 4a522. — slipbox

Traitors in our midst →

Published May 5, 2014  ·  All posts on May 5  ·  

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

Elsewhere, this is 4a18. — slipbox

Progress and change →

Published April 29, 2014  ·  All posts on Apr 29  ·  ,

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Elsewhere, this is 4a39. — slipbox

I shall succeed →

Published April 23, 2014  ·  All posts on Apr 23  ·  

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

~ James A. Garfield

Elsewhere, this is 4a141. — slipbox

Commitment means →

Published April 18, 2014  ·  All posts on Apr 18  ·  

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

Elsewhere, this is 4a67. — slipbox

Harmonious proportions →

Published April 11, 2014  ·  All posts on Apr 11  ·  

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

Elsewhere, this is 4a156. — slipbox

Play a poor hand well →

Published April 5, 2014  ·  All posts on Apr 5  ·  

Life is not always a matter of holding good cards,
but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

~ Jack London

Elsewhere, this is 4a62. — slipbox

Protest Against Idleness →

Published March 30, 2014  ·  All posts on Mar 30  ·  

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

Elsewhere, this is 4a158. — slipbox

Fitness →

Published March 24, 2014  ·  All posts on Mar 24  ·  ,

Fitness is not about being better than someone else,
it’s about being better than you used to be.

~ unknown

Elsewhere, this is 4a281. — slipbox