Personal Responsibility Quotes

"Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself." "We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves " "The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves " "Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - to his personal responsibility." "Staying stupid. Staying poor. Staying stuck. These are all choices." "You can't hire someone else to do your push-ups for you" "The most unprofitable item ever manufactured is an excuse" "If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches." "Don't blame the market for your own bad decisions." "Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore." "Every step we take towards making the state the caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the state our master." "We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within" "You are not a lottery ticket." "The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness You have to catch it yourself" "Only you and you alone can change your situation Don't blame it on anything or anyone" "You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics." "The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them" "A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing, and as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous." "We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it " "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be "