Edward Everett Quotes

Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.

You have to step up when your number is called.

We've been helping you out in Alaska in considerable ways, and you're walking away from the responsibility, and we're not going to allow that.

I just try to do the things I'm asked to do.

Whatever's called I'm going to do my part. If the ball comes my way it comes my way.

If the team needs you, you need to sacrifice.

It's the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody's got to do it. And if you don't, who will?

The price of greatness is responsibility.

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.

I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

That's one of my jobs, just trying to do what I can to help this team out as much as possible.

It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader.

I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task.

May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never do less.

[President] McKinley gave [Lt. Andrew Sommers] Rowan a letter to be delivered to [General Calixto] Garcia: Rowan took the letter and did not ask, "Where is he at?" By the eternal, there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college in the land. It is not book learning that young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do the thing—"carry a message to Garcia.

One has to be available, very much available, and ready to protect the interests of his colleagues.

Whoever can, should.

I wanted to do well for me and for Maura. It is bigger than me. I have a responsibility. It's incumbent upon me to do Maura the best I can.

I promise you that during my life, I was more concerned about not letting people down, about doing my part, than I was ever into what it did for me.

Whatever my role is on each play, that's just what I have to do. I have to do my job. That's pretty much it, regardless of whether it's inside or outside.

Whatever role the coaches decide for me and the team, I'm happy with that.