Personal Responsibility Quotes

"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn" "We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities" "We should not ask what is wrong with the world, for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather we should ask, what has happened to the salt and light" "I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions." "You can't change people, only they can change themselves" "Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions—and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it" "I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too" "If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails" "Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place" It will only be time wasted The question to ask is "How can I make it better" To that there is an answer" "I intend to judge things for myself to judge wrongly I think is more honorable than not to judge at all " "Your life is the fruit of your own doing " "When a man starts out to build a world he starts first with himself" "There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self" "To meddle in other people's problems is to neglect your own" "Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice" "Your success as a family, our success as a society, depends not on what happens in the White House, but on what happens inside your house" "Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get." "The environment is everything that I do" "You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself." "Not being able to govern events, I govern myself."