strength-of-character

I've learnt not to draw my sword first to strike. That in no way portends I have the most feeble of minds or might . . . Probably, I'm waiting for the perfect moment to startle with a fatal strike.

Embrace who you are and your divine purpose. Identify the barriers in your life, and develop discipline, courage and the strength to permanently move beyond them, and keep moving forward.

I will not live the rest of my life in regret.

It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

I know, but if I feel this bad for Gramps, how am I going to feel when it__ Dad?_ Tyler told me. __ou__l feel even worse, of course, but you__l carry on, because happiness has a way of creeping in again. It really does,_ I said.

Character is less about what we do wrong And All about what we make right....

Having problems doesn't make you noble or virtuous, it makes you human. Nobility and virtue comes from the way that you handle your problems and either learn to move past them or live with them if out of your control.

...The happy Warrior... is he... who, doomed to go in company with pain, and fear, and bloodshed, miserable train turns his necessity to glorious gain; in face of these doth exercise a power which is our human nature's highest dower: controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves of their bad influence, and their good receives: by objects, which might force the soul to abate her feeling, rendered more compassionate; is placable_ because occasions rise so often that demand such sacrifice; more skillful in self-knowledge, even more pure, as tempted more; more able to endure, as more exposed to suffering and distress; thence, also, more alive to tenderness.

Had I not gone through my past struggles, I wouldn't be as strong as I am at present.

Human making is our mission.

The older you get the more you realize that just because someone has an important job doesn't necessarily mean that they do it responsibly, or are even good at it. There are many 'D' students running around with high social status gained from their seemingly important positions. Integrity and proficiency are not a given. These qualities can only be proven over time.

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

Anger suffocates your mind, body and soul. The ability to love amidst anger is a true blessing and it transcends our existence!

I once made a solemn vow that I could not keep... I am from this world. Even with all its failures and suffering it is still worthy of my best efforts... and wishing it was otherwise does not make it so." Eiij'lam told the king.