True, but the COST of work well done is the OBLIGATION to do more, no matter how much else it ends up costing you. The fact that you CAN help others means you HAVE to help them to the fullest level of your abilities, no matter how much you yourself have to sacrifice. They are many, you are one. Compared to their lives and their happiness, your life and your happiness is insignificant, and therefore irrelevant.
One may assume that he considered it a positive and spoke those words, or similar, when receiving the Congressional Medal for Distinguished Civilian Service.
I tell you this, my friend; all men are cowards. They dislike a fact except when it is so wrapped up in lies and sentiments that the sharp edge of it cannot hurt them. When a man tells the truth he is, depend upon it, a dangerous man. ~ Eric Ambler, thriller novelist and husband of screenwriter for Alfred Hitchcock, born 28 June 1909