We forge the chains we wear in life.
Charles Dickens
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The world we live in will be either better or worse depending on whether we become better or worse.
Paulo Coelho
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Plato
You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
Martin Luther
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
Groucho Marx
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
Elie Wiesel
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Epictetus
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Jim Rohn
Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.
We are punished by our sins, not for them.
Elbert Hubbard
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.
Bernard Baruch
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
Peter Drucker