Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.
The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Qui facit per alium facit per se. He who does a thing by the agency of another does it himself.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
'It is the duty of the strong to oppose any who threaten the weak.'
- The Southern Paladin
- The Southern Paladin
Magic: The Gathering () - Vengeance
2A true leader does what is right, no matter what others think.
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When you look in her eyes and she's looking back in yours, everything feels not quite normal, because you feel stronger and weaker at the same time. You feel excited and at the same time, terrified. The truth is, you don't know what you feel except you know what kind of man you want to be. It's as if you've reached the unreachable and you weren't ready for it.
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16It is our choices that makes us who we are, and we always have a choice to do what's right.
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12You should know that all power comes at a price. For every bit of power you gain, so too do you gain more responsibility.
There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.
I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.
Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.
We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.
This is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause!
A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.
Zeus in Hercules
11You don't need to be a superhero to get the girl. The right girl will bring out the hero in you.
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5It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong - throughout the world.
He traded sand for skins, skins for gold, gold for life. In the end, he traded life for sand.
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2Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
It does not do to dwell on dreams, Harry, and forget to live.
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.
When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.
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