Men of Measure-old

[image] If you want to be successful in life, do these four things: - Show up on time - Have a good attitude - Respect authority - Do what you say you’re going to do

[image] “Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.” -Saint Augustine

[image] Sir Christopher Lee met Rasputin's assassins, was a RAF intelligence officer in WWII, spoke 9 languages, was Ian Fleming's cousin, and was the only actor in “The Lord of the Rings” to have met J.R.R. Tolkien. He was also married for over 50 years. What a life!

[image] Modern culture tells men that masculinity is the problem. History suggests something very different. Civilization has always depended on a particular kind of man: The Gentleman The world still needs them. Here’s why…🧵

[image] “Knights ought to be humble among their friends, proud and bold against their foes, tender and merciful towards those who need assistance, cruel avengers against their enemies, and pleasant and amiable with all others.” Geoffroi De Charny

[image] “A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.” -Robert A. Heinlein

[image] Timeless advice from the millionaire grandpa…

[image] “Unless a man is master of his soul, all other kinds of mastery amount to little."  - Theodore Roosevelt

[image] “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” Ernest Hemingway

[image] “Never ruin an apology with an excuse.” - Benjamin Franklin

[image] Great advice from The Millionaire Grandpa.

[image] “God knew that children grow and mature best in a stable, loving family, and this was one reason He gave marriage to us.” - Billy Graham

[image] “Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.” John Locke

[image] “Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.” -Sir John Vanbrugh

[image] “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” -Robert Frost

[image] “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” -Marcus Aurelius

[image] “Reading about 125 lines in Sallust, and 35 lines in Greek per day with moderately long lessons in Geometry. This morning arose at 15 minutes before 4 o'clock, studied hard through the day and retired half-past 10 o'clock at night.” From James Garfield's diary as a college

[image] “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” -Albert Einstein

[image] “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way…” -Viktor Frankl

[image] If by Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you        Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,    If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,     But make allowance for their doubting too;    If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,     Or being

[image] Not all heroes wear capes. NYPD Chief Aaron Edwards is seen here jumping the barricades outside Gracie Mansion to tackle a terror suspect who threw an IED. Back the Blue! 🫡

[image] “If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.” -Ivan Turgenev

[image] “A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.” -John Burroughs

[image] “It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness.” -Roger Scruton

[image] “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

[image] “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” -Marcus Aurelius

[image] -Biblical values offer a clear moral compass -Strong families are the bedrock of a stable society -Respect for ancestors instills a sense of history and fosters inter-generational responsibility -Basic manners facilitate respectful interactions and a civil public sphere

[image] “It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested...Life is long if you know how to use it.” -Seneca