Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama
Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
Napoleon Hill
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Ayn Rand
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
John C. Maxwell
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
John Lennon
Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
Ralph Nader
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
Ronald Reagan
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Abigail Van Buren
Responsibility is the price of freedom.
Elbert Hubbard
Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.
John Adams
Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.
Maya Angelou
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Paine
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Saint Augustine
Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
Peter Drucker
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert Einstein
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Thomas Jefferson
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle