[RetiredLEO]

The goal isn,t to live forever; the goal is to create something that will. Check Palahniuk

[RetiredLEO]

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose. Tom Krause

[Trez]

man, this is a long one so bear with me....

The Penalty of Leadership
In every field of human endeavour, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone - if he achieves a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a-wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountback, long after the big would had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy - but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions - envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains - the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live - lives.
Cadillac ad that appeared in Sat. Evening Post, Jan 2nd, 1915

[canebrake]

"A problem well stated is a problem half solved."

-- Charles F. Kettering

[canebrake]

"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."

-- George Herbert

[canebrake]

"Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them."

-- Napoleon Bonaparte

[canebrake]

"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits."

-- Richard M. Nixon

Very prophetic!? - cane

[powg]

''look at tha flag on dat bike! '' as said by the guy in the cafe .referring to wyatts ''captain america'' '63 harley pan head custom chopper

[easterner123]

"sometimes, its just about the pride, coach"
-me
"there are only two ways a man can be defeated, if he dies or if he quits"
Mac from FutureWeapons

[RetiredLEO]

I have a love interest in every one of my films _ a gun. Arnold Schwarzenegger