Window or Mirror?

“Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.”

(two of thirteen definitions)
1. A firm decision to do something
2. Firmness of mind or purpose

Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness. - Joseph Addison

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm. - Charles Kettering

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at this rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. - Jacob A. Riis

It is trivial to say that success comes from perseverance because it is so obvious. Franklin’s text shows an added depth however, as he implies that each of us should work at finding out what it is that we should be doing, as well as doing it without fail. This concept brings together the best of Order, Resolution, and Integrity. Read the rest of this entry »