"Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments."- Kevin Costner (B - 1955) American Actor, Producer and Director
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"Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments."- Kevin Costner (B - 1955) American Actor, Producer and Director
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"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly."- Robert Schuller (B - 1926) American Minister, Evangelist
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"We can often do more for others by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs."- Francois Fenelon (1651 - 1715) French Roman Catholic Theologian
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"Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself."- Harvey Fierstein (B - 1954 ) American actor
"What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has, or how he is regarded by others."- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860) German philosopher
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"One's true happiness depends more upon one's own judgment of one's self, on a consciousness of rectitude in action and intention, and in the approbation of those few who judge impartially, than upon the applause of the unthinking undiscerning multitude, who are apt to cry Hosanna today, and tomorrow, Crucify him."- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American Statesman and Scientist
Strong words and appropriate to our times!
"You, enlightened, self-sufficient, self-governed, endowed with gifts above your fellows, the world expects you to produce as well as to consume, to add to and not to subtract from its store of good, to build up and not to tear down, to ennoble and not degrade. The time is short, the opportunity is great; therefore, crowd the hours with the best that is in you."- John Hibben president of Princeton University, 1913 graduation address
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"Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know."- Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875) English Novelist and Clergyman
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"Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference."- Nolan Bushnell (B - 1943 ) American electrical engineer and businessman
The warrior knows that the fighter who never failed is the fighter who never fought. - Tony Higo, Warrior Wisdom
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"In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill."- Sir Winston Churchill(1874-1965) British Politician
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