For I myself am responsible for myself. ‘To be born a gentleman is an accident; to die one is an achievement.’
Other things, then, I may not be able to help; but myself, I can.
As I am at this very moment, as my character is—truthful or untruthful, pure or impure, patient or impatient, slow to wrath or quick-tempered, eager, enthusiastic, energetic, or lazy and dull and wasteful of time—
I have no one to thank but myself … the fact remains that I myself alone am responsible for my own character; for character is an artificial thing that is not born, but made.
— Fr. Bede Jarrett
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