Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
-- John Wooden
"I would rather die of thirst than drink from the cup of mediocrity."
----Woody Guthrie
There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
----Laurence J. Peter
"When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with."
----Anais Nin, Diary Vol 1
No man is free who cannot command himself.
----Pythagoras
The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
----Rita Mae Brown
Every man who is truly a man must learn to be alone in the midst of all the others, and if need be, against all the others.
----Romain Rolland
What is morality?, she asked.
Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.
----Ayn Rand
If you understand who you are and respect yourself, you will not see criticism as a problem but as an opportunity to become a better person. When you feel inadequate or imperfect, the criticism is threatening and makes you feel that you have to defend yourself. When you are secure - not perfect, but secure - you can listen to the criticism and consider its value."
----Dr. Bernie Siegel
A sub visits submission, a slave lives there.
----Unknown
No slave at heart advances without exposure to slavery.
----ZjC
It is more cowardly to play at your nature than to live it.
----ZjC
A Fathers Prayer
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough
To know when he is weak and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid;
One who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat,
And humble, and gentle in victory.
Build me a son whose wishes will not take the place of deeds;
A son who will know Thee � and that to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge.
Lead him, I pray, not in the path of ease and comfort, but under the stress and spur of difficulties and challenge. Here, let him learn to stand up in the storm; here let him learn compassion for those that fail.
Build me a son whose heart will be clear, whose goal will be high, a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men, one who will reach into the future, yet never forget the past.
And after all these things are his, add, I pray, enough of a sense of humor, so that he may always be serious, yet never take himself too seriously.
Give him humility, so that he may always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, and the meekness of true strength.
Then I, his father, will dare to whisper, "I have not lived in vain."
--General Douglas MacArthur
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