Socrates – #ManCrushMonday
“The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.” _ Socrates
“The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.” _ Socrates
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. ~ John F. Kennedy
“Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.” George S. Patton Jr.
“it’s my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can’t be passive about that.” _ Randy Alcorn, Courageous
“What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.” _ Jack Kerouac, On the Road
“Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.” _ Chuck Norris
In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935
“Why do men like me want sons?” he wondered. “It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone.” _ John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold
“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.” _ Theodore Roosevelt
“the difference between the old and the new education being) in a word, the old was a kind of propagation – men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.” C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man