"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self." - Aristotle

"Charlie Don't Surf!" - Lt. Col. Killroy

“No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.” - Socrates

"He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, too effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action." - Plato

“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

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” - Mahatma Ghandi

“Without music, life would be a mistake.” - Friedrich Nietzche

“I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.” - Jordan Peterson

"If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame." - John G. "Jocko" Willink