By Rudyard Kipling<\/p>\n
If you can keep your head when all about you
\nAre losing theirs and blaming it on you,
\nIf you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
\nBut make allowance for their doubting too;
\nIf you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
\nOr being lied about, don\u2019t deal in lies,
\nOr being hated, don\u2019t give way to hating,
\nAnd yet don\u2019t look too good, nor talk too wise:<\/p>\n
If you can dream\u2014and not make dreams your master;
\nIf you can think\u2014and not make thoughts your aim;
\nIf you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
\nAnd treat those two impostors just the same;
\nIf you can bear to hear the truth you\u2019ve spoken
\nTwisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
\nOr watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
\nAnd stoop and build \u2019em up with worn-out tools:<\/p>\n
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
\nAnd risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
\nAnd lose, and start again at your beginnings
\nAnd never breathe a word about your loss;
\nIf you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
\nTo serve your turn long after they are gone,
\nAnd so hold on when there is nothing in you
\nExcept the Will which says to them: \u2018Hold on!\u2019<\/p>\n
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
\nOr walk with Kings\u2014nor lose the common touch,
\nIf neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
\nIf all men count with you, but none too much;
\nIf you can fill the unforgiving minute
\nWith sixty seconds\u2019 worth of distance run,
\nYours is the Earth and everything that\u2019s in it,
\nAnd\u2014which is more\u2014you\u2019ll be a Man, my son!<\/p>\n
Source: A Choice of Kipling’s Verse (1943)<\/p>\n
The University of Virginia writes her highest degree on the souls of her
\nsons. The parchment page of scholarship\u2014the colored ribbon of a society\u2014
\nthe jeweled emblem of a fraternity\u2014the orange symbol of athletic prowess\u2014
\nall these, a year hence, will be at the best the mementos of happy hours\u2014
\nlike the withered flower a woman presses between the pages of a book for
\nsentiment\u2019s sake.
\nBut\u2026
\nIf you live a long, long time, and hold honesty of conscience
\nabove honesty of purse;
\nAnd turn aside without ostentation to aid the weak;
\nAnd treasure ideals more than raw ambition;
\nAnd track no man to his undeserved hurt;
\nAnd pursue no woman to her tears;
\nAnd love the beauty of noble music and mist-veiled mountains
\nand blossoming valley and great monuments-
\nIf you live a long time and, keeping the faith in all these things
\nhours by hour, still see that the sun gilds your path with real
\ngold and that the moon floats in dream silver;
\nThen\u2026
\nRemembering the purple shadows of the lawn, the majesty of
\nthe colonnades, and the dream of your youth, you may say
\nin your reverence and thankfulness:
\n\u201cI have worn the honors of Honors.
\nI graduated from Virginia.\u201d<\/p>\n
-James Hay, Jr., \u201803<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cI have never been hurt by anything I didn\u2019t say\u201d\u00a0 Calvin Coolidge<\/p>\n
\u201cOne with courage is a majority\u201d Thomas Jefferson<\/p>\n
\u201cAbove all tell the truth\u201d Grover Cleveland<\/p>\n
\u201cA pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist \u00a0is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties\u201d Harry Truman<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog\u201d Harry Truman<\/p>\n
\u201cTo those to whom much is given, much is expected\u201d John F. Kennedy<\/p>\n
“A success has 100 fathers and a failure is an orphan” John F. Kennedy<\/p>\n
\u201cThings may come to those who wait\u2026but only the things left by those who hustle\u201d Abraham Lincoln<\/p>\n
“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.\u00a0 Without it, no real success is possible, no matter when it is on a section\u00a0 gang, a football field, in an army, or in business” Dwight D. Eisenhower<\/p>\n
“Plans are nothing, planning is everything.” Dwight D. Eisenhower<\/p>\n
\u201cA man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits\u201d Richard Nixon<\/p>\n
\u201cAny definition of a successful life must include serving others\u201d George H.W. Bush<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Mark Twain<\/p>\n
\u201cThe secret to getting ahead is getting started\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you tell the truth, you don\u2019t have to remember anything\u201d<\/p>\n
It is not the size of the dog in the fight, it\u2019s the size of the fight in the dog\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere would men be without women? Scarce sir.. mighty scarce\u201d<\/p>\n
Jane Howard<\/p>\n
\u201cCall it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whoever you are, you need one\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cThe time is always right to do what is right\u201d Martin Luther King<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople who worry about their hair all the time ,frankly are boring\u201d Barbara Bush<\/p>\n
\u201cEducation is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world\u201d Nelson Mandela<\/p>\n
\u201cA word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used\u201d \u00a0Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes<\/p>\n
\u201cWhom the gods wish to destroy, they first call promising\u201d\u00a0 Cyril Connolly , Enemies of Promise<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cMarry the mother of your children, not your Saturday<\/span> night girl\u201d W.K. Parker<\/p>\n \u201cCourage is what it takes to stand up and speak . Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen\u201d \u00a0Winston Churchill<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n \u201c Wise men speak because they have something to say. Fools because they have to say something\u201d Plato<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n \u201cHow do you find a lady ?? Be a gentleman” \u00a0 unknown <\/u><\/u><\/p>\n \u201cBeing male is a matter of birth<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Being a man is a matter of age<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Being a gentleman is a matter of choice\u201d unknown <\/u><\/u><\/p>\n <\/u>\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n \u201c I choose not to be in the company of men who choose not to be gentlemen\u201d unknown<\/p>\n <\/p>\n His government asked the ultimate sacrifice of a generation of 18 to 25 year old women and men in 1940. They conducted the successful air defense of Britain in her darkest hour, when over 40,000 civilians were killed by German bombings. Churchill possessed \u00a0a remarkable ability to use the English language. He summed the sacrifice of this generation of aviators and radar operators with a succinct quote, in a speech of gratitude.<\/p>\n \u201cNever in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.\u201d<\/p>\n After General Montgomery\u2019s hard won victory in North Africa over the General Rommel, \u00a0the famed German \u201cDesert Fox\u201d, Churchill stated \u201cNow is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But is\u00a0 perhaps the end of the beginning\u201d<\/p>\n The wit of Winston Churchill<\/p>\n Nancy Longhorne a \u00a0Danville, Virginia native who \u00a0married an Astor of English society, became \u00a0Lady Nancy Astor. She was the first woman to win a seat in the British House of Commons .She \u00a0famously joisted with Winston Churchill, who she loved to tease.<\/p>\n Lady Astor to Winston \u201cif you were my husband, I\u2019d poison your tea\u201d Churchill\u2019s celebrated retort \u00a0\u201cNancy ,\u201dIf you were my wife, I\u2019d gladly drink it\u201d<\/p>\n Churchill a prolific writer of memoirs, never felt inclined to write an \u00a0autobiography. Given his long lifespan and great achievements, he was queried why. \u00a0He response was that ,my autobiography has already been written for me by Rudyard Kipling with the poem \u201cIf\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 lied about, don\u2019t deal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"parent":79,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-523","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nGrandfatherly advise<\/h1>\n
Talking\/Speaking<\/h1>\n
Gentlemen<\/u><\/u><\/h1>\n
Winston Churchill<\/h1>\n