Responsibility
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- The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
- The wise man expects everything from himself; the fool looks to others.
- The world cares very little what you or I know, but it does care a great deal about what you or I do.
- The world doesn’t owe you anything. It was here first.
- The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
- The worst lesson that can be taught a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings.
- There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
- There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
- There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction. The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, the responsibility lies with you.
- There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.
- There is no one else to blame. The leader must acknowledge mistakes and admit failures, take ownership of them, and develop a plan to win.
- There is no right without a parallel duty, no liberty without the supremacy of the law, no high destiny without earnest perseverance, no greatness without self-denial.
- There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
- Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses.
- Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of its shortness.
- Thou oughtest to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them.
- Time and chance can do nothing for those who will do nothing for themselves. Providence itself can scarcely save a people who are not prepared to make a struggle for their safety.
- To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
- To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.
- To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open.
- To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.
- To will oneself free is also to will others free.
- UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
- Until you are willing to accept total and complete responsibility for every aspect of your life, your life will keep sending you experiences designed to get your attention.
- Until you can see, and admit, that YOU are the problem... You will be unable to realize that YOU must be the solution.
- Until you work as hard as those you admire, don’t explain away their success as luck.
- We all have the power to choose how we are going to handle every situation we are faced with throughout our lives. We are in control of the decision we make whether it’s about work, relationships, parenting, or our health.
- We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be.
- We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.
- We are not victims of our situation. We are the architects of it.
- We are stewards merely, and as stewards we shall be held accountable for the way we use whatever is entrusted to us.
- We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellowmen; and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
- We can’t control all the variables in our lives. It’s about what we do with opportunities revoked or presented to us that determine how a story ends.
- We can't control what other people do and how they treat us, but we can control our response to them.
- We don't just get our choice; we get the consequence that choice creates.
- We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice — that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it.
- We have the responsibility to put our gifts to work.
- We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides.
- We make our fortunes, and we call them fate.
- What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander.