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Courage is Two Parts

Thomas Aquinas said that courage consists of two parts: patient endurance and the willingness to risk. Risk without endurance is foolhardy. Endurance without risk is to become a door mat. Courage is not possible without the wisdom to know when to "hunker down" and when to "step up." In all cases, courage is the willingness to stand against that which would seek to destroy you.

Becoming Who My Dog Thinks I Am

When I grow up I want to become the person my dog thinks I am. --Steve Sjogren

Twain on Old Habits

Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed down the stairs one step at a time. -- Mark Twain

Mistaking a Weakness for a Strength

Knowing your own strength is a fine thing. Recognizing your own weakness is even better. What is really bad, what hurts and finally defeats us, is mistaking a weakness for a strength. -- Sydney J. Harris

Trustworthiness as Test of Character

No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness. ? Harry Emerson Fosdick

The Good of Being Forced to Work

Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you a hundred virtues which the idle never know. --Charles Kingsley

Education Forms Character

?Education has for its object the formation of character.? (Philosopher Herbert Spencer)

Roosevelt on Education

?To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.? (Former President Theodore Roosevelt)

Universities are Turning Out Barbarians

?Universities are turning out highly skilled barbarians because we don?t provide a framework of values to young people who more and more are searching for it.? (Steven Mueller, president of Johns Hopkins University

We Build Men

Arthur Imperatore, the president of A-P-A Transport, a company that's risen to the top of their industry, said, ?My whole philosophy is that we build men. Incidentally, we move freight.?

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