Pillar for July/August

Responsibility :

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

~ Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA)

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

~ Walter Anderson ~ (American Trainer, Author)

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

~ Denis Waitley ~ (1933-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert)

If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

~ Michelangelo ~ (1474-1564, Italian Renaissance Painter, Sculptor)

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

~ Mary Pickford ~ (1893-1979, Canadian-born American Actress)

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

~ Samuel Johnson ~ (1709-1784, British Author)

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

~ Winston Churchill ~ (1874-1965, British Prime Minister)

That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability has increased.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ (1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist)

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

~ Thomas Edison ~

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

~ Woody Hayes ~ (American College Football Coach)

When declaring your rights, don’t forget your responsibilities.

~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself., Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.

~ Henry Ward Beecher ~

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

~ George Santayana ~ (1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet)

If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?

~ Joe Namath ~ (1943-, American Football Player)

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

~ Louis Pasteur ~ (1822-1895, French Scientist Who Developed "Pasteurization")

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

~ Will Rogers ~

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

~ Edward Gibbon ~ (1737-1794, British Historian)

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

~ Dale Carnegie ~ (1888-1955, American Author, Trainer)

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~ (1884-1962, American First Lady, Columnist, Lecturer, Humanitarian)

When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, "He's so big we can never kill him." But David looked at the same giant and thought, "He's so big, I can't miss."

~ Ode to Joy ~ (Society of Paul)

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own., You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

~ Albert Ellis ~

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.

~ Philip Massinger ~ (1624)

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

~ John D. Rockefeller ~

I do not promise you ease. I do not promise comfort. But I do promise you these: hardship, weariness, and suffering. And with them, I promise you victory.

~ Giuseppe Garibaldi ~

If there ever could be a proper time for mere catch arguments, that time surely is not now. In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not be personally responsible through time and in eternity.

~ Abraham Lincoln ~ (Annual Message to congress, December 1, 1862)

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~

The price of greatness is responsibility.

~ Winston Churchill ~ (Address at Harvard University, September 6, 1943)

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ ("New England Reformers", Essays, 1844)

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

~ Marion Wright Edelman ~ (Speech at Howard University, Washington, D. C., May 12, 1990)

The things I never say never get me into trouble.

~ Calvin Coolidge ~

The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.

~ Ernest Hemingway ~ (For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1940)

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

~ Martin Luther ~

"You can’t escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

~ Abraham Lincoln~ (19th-century American president)

"Provision for others is the fundamental responsibility of human life.''

~ Woodrow Wilson ~ (20th-century American president)

"To protect those who are not able to protect themselves is a duty which every one owes to society.''

~ Edward Macnaghten ~

"I am only one, but still, I am one. I cannot do everything but I can do something. And, because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do what I can."

~ Edwin Hale ~

"It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."

~ Chinese proverb ~

"Responsibility is to keep the ability to respond"

~ Robert Duncan ~

"Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.''

~ Henry F. Amiel ~

"The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has."

~ Hamilton Wright Mabee ~

"The value of life is not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet very little."

~ Michel de Montaigne ~ (16th-century French man of letters and essayist)

"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once."

~ Calvin Coolidge ~ (20th-century American president)

"Any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day."

~ Booker T. Washington ~ (19th-century American educator)

"I long to accomplish some great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."

~ Helen Keller ~ (20th-century American Nobel Prize-winning social activist, public speaker and author)

"A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day."

~ Albert Schweitzer ~ (Early 20th-century German Nobel Peace Prize-winning mission doctor and theologian)

"We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance."

~ Calvin Coolidge ~ (20th-century American president)

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