Courage vs Honor

"Courage is a hard thing to figure. You can have courage based on a dumb idea or a mistake, but you’re not supposed to question adults, or your coach, or your teacher because they make the rules. Maybe they know best but maybe they don’t. It all depends on who you are, where you come from. Didn’t at least one of the six hundred guys think about giving up and joining with the other side? I mean, Valley of Death, that’s pretty salty stuff. That’s why courage is tricky. Should you always do what others tell you to do? Sometimes you might not even know why you’re doing something. I mean, any fool can have courage. But honor, that’s the real reason you either do something or you don’t. It’s who you want to be. If you die trying for something important then you have both honor and courage and that’s pretty good. I think that’s what the writer was saying; that you should try for courage and hope for honor. And maybe even pray that the people telling you what to do have some, too." The Blind Side the movie Michael Oher

Lift yourself

"If you want to lift
yourself up, lift up
someone else."
Booker T. Washington

Steering

"He is the best sailor who can steer
within fewest points of the wind,
and exact a motive power out of
the greatest obstacles."
Henry David Thoreau

Obstacles

"Obstacles are those frightful
things you see when you take
your eyes off the goal."
Author Unknown

Courage

"Courage is resistance to fear,
mastery of fear--not
absence of fear."
Mark Twain

Fear

"No passion so effectually robs
the mind of all its powers of
acting and reasoning as fear."
Edmund Burke

Tomorrow

Everything I Do...
Everything I say...
Changes the world in some small way.
...Am I making it better?...

What will I do today that will matter tomorrow?