Uncertainty

"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks."

Daniel Boone

Understanding

"All compassion is built on understanding."

Wes Fessler

Understanding

"There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy."

Mark Twain

Unity

"More is required than a common last name to truly be called a family."

Wes Fessler

Unity

"Never be too absorbed by your own ambitions to encourage those of your family."

Wes Fessler

Unity

"The deepest bonds of unity are forged through the trial of competing ideals that have compatible values."

Wes Fessler

Unity

"We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately."

Benjamin Franklin

Valor

"Valor is the ultimate determination to risk peril for victory in a just cause."

Wes Fessler

Values

"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few, friend to one; enemy to none."

Benjamin Franklin

Values

"Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none."

William Shakespeare

Values

"Let values be defined by conscience and the common good of others rather than by the plastic world of vanity and self-appeasement."

Wes Fessler

Veterans

"Veterans are the foundation of all American freedom."

Wes Fessler

Victory

"The most dangerous moment comes with victory."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Victory

"Rejoice in liberating moments of victory when conflicts, trials, and adversity fall momentarily under your command."

Wes Fessler

Victory

"Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived."

Abraham Lincoln

Virtue

“In the search for virtue, one must only follow conscience.”

Wes Fessler

Weaknesses

"Much of the fondness we gain for others is derived from disdain for ourselves."

Wes Fessler

Wisdom

"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."

Aristotle

Wisdom

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."

William Shakespeare

Wisdom

"Wisdom is found in degrees based on one's compulsion for learning and distaste for ignorance."

Wes Fessler

Words

"Words are the tools that paint our thoughts with the skills that we artists possess."

Wes Fessler

Work

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

Mark Twain

Work

"Nothing is a job when you love your work."

Wes Fessler

Work

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

Benjamin Franklin

Work

"Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."

Thomas Jefferson

Worry

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Worry

"Never waste time idling in worry. Worry up a solution and get it in gear."

Wes Fessler

Youth

"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not."

Mark Twain

Youth

"Youth is the freedom to exist one step beyond the grasp of reality."

Wes Fessler