Circumstances don't make the man they only reveal him, to himself. Todays man blames circumstances for his shortcomings, his failures, his unhappiness, surrendering his responsibility to external forces. A generation of men who, rather then confront themselves, retreat behind a difficult life. The ancient stoics asserted that. True manhood was not in how he is affected by the world but, by how he responds to it. While the masses point fingers the stoic stands firm, converting each challenge into a step towards self realisation and virtue.

What you leave behind in not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. - Pericles

Truth is not what you want it to be, it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie. - Miyamoto Musashi

"Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity. And so we ask ourselves, will our actions echo across the centuries? Will strangers hear our names long after we"re gone? and wonder who we were, how bravely we fought, how fiercely we loved?" - Odysseus

“I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.” - William Tecumseh Sherman

"Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not achieve. Officers and men alike will put forth their uttermost strength. Soldiers when in desperate straits lose the sense of fear." - Sun Tzu

"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly." - JFK

"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but those who watch them and do nothing." - Albert Einstein

"We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice, and high courage." - Teddy Roosevelt

"To know nothing of what happened before you were born, is to remain a child." - Cicero

"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability." - Marcus Aurelius

"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes." - Winston Churchill

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once." - Julius Caesar

The Gods envy us, they envy us because we are mortal. Any moment might be our last everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. - Achilles