Michael A. Stackpole Quotes

As long as there are ways we can serve, then we have a job to do.

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.

It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.

Everyone has a job to do; that's how I see it.

People look to me for guidance or responsibility. People put a lot of stuff on me as a symbol of something, which is nothing I opted into, but it's a responsibility I take seriously regardless.

Everybody has a job to do and I'm no different.

I know what my role is.

I learned that it is better, a thousandfold , for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood. In nothing was my ideal lowered, or dimmed, or grown less precious; I only saw it too plainly, to set myself for a moment beside it.

I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing.

The job is not the work.

Responsiblity is the great developer of men.

A dog is like a person—he needs a job and a family to be what he’s meant to be.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by how one thinks and acts.

As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.

Mercy can purge the soul of sin, making room for a fresh start. Truth is vital in order that we have an unvarying standard by which to determine what we are to be and to do and what we are to rid ourselves of. All the cardinal virtues, therefore, carry their own intrinsic as well as outward reward. A merciful man does do good to his own soul.

In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.

He that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor.

I compare myself to a good barn. You can have a good barn, and if you paint it, it looks a little better. But if you take the paint off, it's still a good barn.

Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.

You’ve got to be uncomfortable and rise to different occasions in order to become your best. No one is born a hero, but things happen and your response makes you a hero. It’s instinctual, it’s something that you may not even realize is there.

Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for.

Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great.

At the end of the day you go out and do your job and follow your directions.