What is the measure of a man?

What is the measure of a man? Is it the fruit of his labors or the secrets of his heart? Is it the person he is? Or the evil, he could become?

The man who embraces his heroic nature, pays a terrible price. He sees the darkness in the world, and in his own heart and he's forever changed. The child gives way to the man, and the day comes when he must ask himself, what kind of man will I be. Am I willing to die on my feet, or will I live my life on my knees. Do I have what it takes to become truly great, to become more than a man, to become a holy man.