#300

"Better we show them, we chose to die on our feet, rather than live on our knees!"

- Theomistocles, 300: Rise of an empire

What starts here changes the world.

Naval Admiral William H. McRaven spoke to the graduates with lessons he learned from his basic SEAL training.

The 10 Lessons:

#1 If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.

#2 If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle.

#3 If you want to change the world, measure a person by the size of their heart, not the size of   their flippers.

#4 If you want to change the world get over being a sugar cookie and keep moving forward.

#5 But if you want to change the world, don’t be afraid of the circuses.

#6 If you want to change the world sometimes you have to slide down the obstacle head first.

#7 So, if you want to change the world, don’t back down from the sharks.

#8 If you want to change the world, you must be your very best in the darkest moment.

#9 So, if you want to change the world, start singing when you’re up to your neck in mud.

#10  If you want to change the world don’t ever, ever ring the bell.

Brave

"Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it"

- Bear Grylls

Sun

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows will fall behind you"

- Moari Proverb

The Persistent

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or when the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly... who, at the best,knows,in the end, the triumph of high achievement,and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails whilst daring greatly- so that his place shall never be with these cold and timid souls who neither victory nor defeat... for those who have had to fight for it, life has truly a flavour the protected shall never know."

- Theodore Roosevelt