Quotes & Wisdom Library

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

You are free to make whatever choice you want, but you are not free from the consequences of the choice.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.