Today is the day to start. Start the workout program, or successfully striving to be a better parent, better spouse, better friend, better employee. To start growing as a stronger leader, to take back your life spiritually or financially or relationally. Start. Below is a century-old poem on leadership. Please take out the word "Men" and insert "Women, parents, nurses, teachers, friends, partners, volunteers, children or leaders." With all the challges we face individually and collectivrly, the time is now. Start! Give Us Men! Give us Men! Men-from every rank, Fresh and free and frank; Men of thought and reading, Men of light and leading, Men of loyal breeding, The nation’s welfare speeding; Men of faith and not of fiction, Men of lofty aim in action; Give us Men-I say again, Give us Men! Give us Men! Strong and stalwart ones; Men whom highest hope inspires, Men whom purest honor fires, Men who trample self beneath them, Men who make their country wreath them As her noble sons, Worthy of their sires; Men who never shame their mothers, Men who never fail their brothers, True, however false are others: Give us Men-I say again, Give us Men! Give us Men! Men who, when the tempest gathers, Grasp the standard of their fathers In the thickest fight; Men who strike for home and altar, (Let the coward cringe and falter), God defend the right! True as truth the lorn and lonely, Tender, as the brave are only, Men who treat where saints have trod, Men for Country, Home- and God: Give us Men! I say again- again- Give us Men! -Josiah Gilbert Holland
Posted on: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 12:44:57 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015