“If you run from your fears, you will never conquer them. If you run from your pain, you will never be free of it. If you run from the darkness within, you will never see the light.” - Erwin Raphael McManus
 
Are you able to stand up to your faults?

11 Rules for Life
 
(From One of the Richest Men in the World)
 
 
Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it.
 
Rule 2: The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
 
Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a corner office until you earn both.
 
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss.
 
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called is opportunity.
 
Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parent fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
 
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So, before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your room.
 
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they will give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
 
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
 
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people have to actually leave the coffee shop and go to a job.
 
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.  
 
 
 
Bill Gates

“The way you conduct yourself in all areas of your life, your ability to show intelligence and class and self-control, those are the things that separate you from the rest of the pack.” - Tim Grover
 
What does your conduct say about your character?
 

“When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I will like it or not. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were you own.” - Colin Powell
 
Are you able to be loyal even when things don’t go your way?

“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” - Michael Porter
 
Are you able to say "no" to the things that don’t contribute to your long-term success?

"Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about effectively dealing with the consequences." - Sophocles

How do you honorably deal with the consequences of your decisions?