"What doe not destroy us, makes us stronger!" - Friedrich Nietzsche
Proverbs/Snakeisms
Snake Blocker with students, Iraq (left), Clinching/Trapping Range (right)
Anger is an emotional state that varies in intensity from mild irritation to intense fury and rage. Like other emotions, it is accompanied by physiological and biological changes; when you get angry, your heart rate and blood pressure go up, and so does the level of your energy hormones, adrenalin, and noradrenalin. Anger is a common feeling, thought, and behavior. It is not so much the feeling or the thought that is the trouble - it is what we do when we are angry that is the issue. Poorly managed anger is at the root of many serious physical, social, and emotional problems, from heart disease to interpersonal violence. Anger kills. Not only does anger drive people to shoot, stab, or inflict violence on others, it poses serious health risks. Anger can cause hypertension, high blood pressure, and depression. People who have high levels of anger have a greater risk of dying from heart disease. Hostile people can have weaker immune systems. Several studies show that anger can predict shorter life spans. Unexpressed anger can lead to pathological expressions of that anger, such as getting back at people indirectly, putting others down, and criticizing everything. Anger is like a slow-acting poison. It eats away at you and courses through both the mind and body. The instinctive, natural way to express anger is to respond aggressively. Anger is a natural, adaptive response to threats; it inspires powerful, often aggressive, feelings and behaviors, which allow us to fight and to defend ourselves when we are attacked. A certain amount of anger, therefore, is necessary to our survival. On the other hand, we can't physically lash out at every person or object that irritates or annoys us; laws, social norms, and common sense place limits on how far our anger can take us.
"In Bushido if a warrior goes into battle with the knowledge that he will die...then he will not. If he is unsure...he will surely die." - Japanese Proverb Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools." - King Solomon, 3rd King of Israel
"Evil lurks where disappointment lodges." - George Foreman, 2x World Champion Boxer
"I don't want to hurt you; I just want to knock you out." - George Foreman, 2x World Champion Boxer
"It doesn't matter how you throw your punches as long as you can do it quickly." - Sugar Ray Robinson, The Great Boxer
"Until a man knows he's a man, he will forever be trying to prove he is one, while at the same time he will shrink from anything that might reveal he is not." - John Eldredge, Author
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." - Thomas Jefferson
"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
"Sometimes you have to fight when you're a man." - Keny Rogers
"Words and magic were, in the beginning, one and the same thing. And even today words retain much of their magical power." - Sigmund Freud
"Life is largely a matter of expectation." - Horace, Latin Poet
"In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want." - Alfred A. Montapert, Author
"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red light." - Albert Schweitzer
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." - William Shakespeare
"The only safe ship in a storm is leadership." - Faye Wattleson, Activist
"The leader must know, must know that he knows, and must be able to make it abundantly clear to those about him that he knows." - Clarence B. Randall
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him...the unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself...All progress depends on the unreasonable man." - Gorge Benard Shaw
"When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart." - Mencius, 4th Century A.D.
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future." - John F. Kennedy
"Progress is a nice word. But change is a motivator." - Robert Kennedy
"Most unhappieness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid." - Feodor Dostoevski
"The instinct of the people is right." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We learn geology the morning after the earthquake!" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"No, I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Don't hit at all, if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star." - Frederick Nietzsche
"A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do." - John Wayne
"Talk slow, talk low, and don't talk too much." - John Wayne
"A battle is lost less through the loss of men than by discouragement." - Frederick the Great
"I see these personality traits as signs of a well ordered man who has self control: a man who can survive in the woods without saran wrap and a supermarket close by." - Don Paul
"With a donkey's jawbone, I have made donkeys of them. With a donkey's jawbone, I have killed a thousand men." - Samson
"Experience alone is not a guarantee of wisdom." - Donald Walters
"Honor is something that once you lose it you become like an insect in the jungle. You prey upon others and others prey upon you until there is nothing left. Once you lose your honor, all the gold in the world is useless in your attempt to regain it." - Lieutenant Colonel Therodore "Ted" Guy, USAF
"There are two types of people who never achieve very much in their lifetimes. One is the person who won't do what he or she is told to do, and the other is the person who does no more than he or she is told to do." - Andrew Carnegie
"No man can become rich without himself enriching others." - Andrew Carnegie
"Do the common thing uncommonly well." - H.J. Heinz, 1869
"There is something that is much more scarce, something finer by far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability." - Elbert Hubbard
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." - Don Herold
"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips." - Oliver Goldsmith
"At the 'Day of Judgement' we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done." - Thomas A. Kempis
"Give me Liberty, or give me Death?" - Patrick Henry, 1775."
"There comes a special moment in everyone's life...a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it , will fulfill his mission - It is his Mission, for which he is uniquely qualified. In that moment, he finds greatness. It is his finest hour. - Winston Churchill
"We are resolved to destroy Hitler and every vestige of the Nazi regime. From this, nothing will turn us. Nothing! We will never parley, we will never negotiate with Hitler or any of his gang. We shall fight him by land. We will fight him by sea. We shall fight him in the air. Until, with God's help, we have rid the earth of his shadow!" - Winston Churchill
"Don't hate your enemies...it clouds your judgment." - The Godfather III
"Don't let anyone know what you are thinking." - The Godfather III
"Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger." - The Godfather III
"Good moral character is the first essential in a man." - George Washington
"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness." - Josh Billings
"What makes any act extraordinary is doing it with heart. What makes any life extraordinary is living it with love." - Mark Sanborn
"When those who know are able to show, those who learn are able to grow." - Mark Sanborn
"The best never rest!" - Mark Sanborn
"Ignorance isn't bliss, it's blind. A lack of awareness prevents us from consciously focusing on what's important." - Mark Sanborn
"You can do all the right things, but if they're done for the wrong reasons or with the wrong attitude, your efforts will be short-circuited." - Mark Sanborn
"Courage and Cowardice are both contagious." - John C. Maxwell
"You teach what you know, but you reproduce who you are." - John C. Maxwell
"Only courage allows you to do what you are afraid of doing." - John C. Maxwell
"Without courage, we're slaves of our own insecurity and possessiveness." - John C. Maxwell
"If a leader lacks courage, the people will lack commitment. - John C. Maxwell
"A leader without courage will never let go of the familar." - John C. Maxwell
"Whatever you are, be a good one." - Abraham Lincoln
"...If I ascend into heaven, You [God] are there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there Your Hand shall lead me, and Your Right Hand shall hold me." - King David (2nd King of Israel)
"A soldier came down from Dien Ben Phu with tears in his eyes. He told of many a night when fire was in the sky. He told of many a morning when the bravest of men would cry...knowing that through Satan's earthbound magic, many more would have to die." - Richie Haven
"I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course, I have kept the fatih..." - Ancient Proverbs
"Nothing is so hard to gain and so easy to lose as a good reputation." - Ancient Proverb
"One can not endure a life without Passion." - Ancient Proverbs
"In my flesh...there dwelleth no good thing." - Ancient Proverbs
"From evil doers comes evil deeds." - Ancient Proverbs
"Blessed are the Peacemakers...for they will be called the Children of God." - Ancient Proverbs
"The beginning of wisdom is addressing things for what they really are." - Ancient Chinese Proverbs
"Before setting out on revenge...first, dig two graves!" - Ancient Chinese Proverbs
"Where the head goes, the body follows!" - Warrior Proverbs
"There is a passion for hunting that is deeply implanted in humans." - Charles Dickens
"You can get further with a kind word and a gun, then you can with just a kind word." - The Untouchables
"In a knife attack, there are no rules. This is primal man at his worst." - Mark Lonsdale
"When in doubt, smack him again..and again!" - W. Hock Hochheim
"Expect Chaos! Train for Chaos! Thrive in Chaos!" - W. Hock Hochheim
"Some argue, all killers are lost in a world of madness." - Gerry Spence
"...Conventional Wisdom to the contrary, Political Correctness notwithstanding, this was and is and always will be..." - Gerry Spence
"A pig [a racist] is a pig despite the amount of mud he carries around on him." - Gerry Spence
"I say punishment cures nothing. We have been punishing from the beginning of time and have learned nothing of benefit from it. From the beginning we have confused punishment with justice. Justice cures nothing. - Gerry Spence
"Revenge is worthless to all but the victim, and for the victim it only poisons the heart. And will we be safer having punished all of the criminals? Will they have learned their lessons and, when released, become friendly, helpful citizens whom we can embrace as our neighbors?" - Gerry Spence
"The truth, in the hands of an incompetent, is more powerful than all of the tricks available to his most skilled adversary." - Gerry Spence
"I say we are an angry people. Our demand for justice is a demand for punishment. We confuse our longing for justice with our unrequited anger. If only we could punish more, strike back more, squash the gangs, imprison more felons, kill more killers. If only we could line the criminals up in long lines, lines that extend from San Francisco to Boston, and stick the needles in their arms, all of their arms, and incinerate their bodies. In our hearts we want to kill... So in our hearts, are we not killers as well?" - Gerry Spence
"The ability to rationalize is the single most evil talent lurking alongside the virtues of the human species. No other creature on the face of the earth can rationalize... We can rationalize killing millions of people with a single bomb in support of an economic system. We can rationalize the destruction of this gorgeous planet to wrap crap in plastic. We can rationalize blowing holes through the ozone in order to spray our hair in the morning. We can rationalize killing people in gas chambers while we demand that our citizens cease killing." - Gerry Spence
"Punishment will not free us of crime. It only creates it, exacerbates it, spreads it, forces the roots into deeper flesh. Crime will end when punishment ends. When we no longer punish the innocent child. When we are willing to be just by being fair. When we care for an old bag woman as much as we care for Nicole [Simpson]. When we care as much about the millions of children in America who live below the poverty level as we care about JonBenet. Crime will end when we no longer commit our own crimes of banishment and greed against the weak and the poor. Then we will no longer need to be afraid, our anger will subside, and a calm will begin to set in. A blessed calm." - Gerry Spence
"I think we must begin to ask why we are so afraid. Why do we hate so? If we can understand our fear, our hate, perhaps we can better define the justice we require, for unless justice renders good, unless it ameliorates our terror, unless it brings about change and elevates the human condition, it is worthless." - Gerry Spence
"Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others...it's the only means." - Albert Einstein
"Try not to be a man of success but rather a man of value." - Albert Einstein
"The time has come, at last, for action!" - Charles Lindbergh, The Spirit of St. Louis
"I have not yet begun to fight!" - John Paul Jones
"I will never surrender of my own free will!" - John Paul Jones
"It is true, I run great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger." - John Paul Jones
"There's the good, there's the bad, and then there's the ugly..." - Ollie North
"Time's up Wienie Boy!" - Tom Barnhart
"Everything else is just Ballroom Dancing!" - Tom Barnhart
"I'm gonna gut you like a fish!" - Mike Tyson, World Champion Boxer
"Everyone has a game plan, then you get punched in the mouth!" - Mike Tyson, World Champion Boxer
"Remember that Death is lighter than a feather, but Duty is heavier than a mountain." - Japanese Infantry Motto
"You don't hurt 'em, if you don't hit 'em!" - Lt Gen. Chesty Puller
"Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is...It's the Only answer!" - Tim Larkin
"Tap Out or Pass Out! It doesn't matter to me!" - Unknown
"In a fight it doesn't matter who is right...it only matters who is left!" - Unknown
"Aspire to Inspire before you Retire or Expire!" - Unknown
"An armed society is a polite society." - Unknown
"Violence is a symton of desperation." - Unknown
"2nd place just means you're the first loser!" - Unknown
"There are 3 types of Leaders in this world. A Leader in control; A Leader under control; or a Leader out of control." - Unknown
"Everyone is born right handed...only the gifted overcome it." - Unknown
"No one spears a dead fish." - Unknown
"There is no "I" in "Team"...but there is in "Win!" - Unknown
"There is no "I" in "Team"...but you can find "Me!" - Unknown
"There is no "I" in "Pack!" - Unknown
"I'm not mean...you're just a Sissy!" - Unknown
"Man whom run rehind bus get exhausted." - Unknown
"Man who leap off cliff, jump to conclusion." - Unknown
"A spiritual balance is the difference between a puzlled life and a life puzzled." -Unknown
"We can accomplish anything we want, provided we don't care who receives the credit." - Unknown
"Celebrate the accompliishments along the way." - Unknown
"Scissors were not meant for puzzles." -Unknown
"There is no sense of accomplishment with peeling off the stickers of a Rubik's Cube." - Unknown
"In self-defense...I'd rather beg for forgiveness, than ask for permission." - Unknown
"There are no unimportant jobs, just people who feel unimportant doing their job." - Unknown
"You can't strengthen the weak by weakening the strong!" - Unknown
"If you have an issue...here's a tissue!" - Unknown
"Compared to shame, Death is nothing." - Unknown
"War has never solved anything except: Slavery, Fascism, Nazism, and Communism!" - Unknown
"You only have the Rights you are willing to fight for!" - Unknown
