Adversity toughens manhood, and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempt from the evils of life, but that he has surmounted them. - Patrick Henry

Fathers are to sons what blacksmiths are to swords. It is the job of the blacksmith not only to make a sword but also to maintain its edge of sharpness. It is the job of the father to keep his son sharp and save him from the dullness of foolishness. He gives his son that sharp edge through discipline. - Steve Farrar

That’s what fathering is all about. It’s mentoring and equipping your son to become a man who will assume the family leadership for the next generation. You have no higher calling in life. It is your God-given assignment - Steve Farrar

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer too much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. - Teddy Roosevelt

No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself. - Woodrow Wilson

If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful. - Teddy Roosevelt

The common-minded man always calls the man who thinks of righteousness before gain, who seeks to do the will of God and does not seek to make a fortune, unpractical. He WILL not see that the very essence of the practical lies in doing the right thing. - George McDonald

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. - Frank A. Clark

In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given. - George McDonald