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Responsibility
QUOTATIONS VARIOUS SOURCES
"It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete."--Epictetus, Enchiridion
"Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to your ability to choose, unless that is your choice. Lameness is a hindrance to the leg, but not to your ability to choose. Say this to yourself with regard to everything that happens, then you will see such obstacles as hindrances to something else, but not to yourself."--Epictetus, Enchiridion
"The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self."--Plato, Laws
"No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities."--William Boetcker
"There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self."--John Gay
"If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself."--Benjamin Franklin
"I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life."--Meryl Streep
"The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character."--Isabelle Eberhardt
"The more you are willing to accept responsibility for your actions, the more credibility you will have."--Brian Koslow
"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."--Joan Didion
"Life always gets harder towards the summit--the cold increases, responsibility increases."--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 1844-1900
"The fault, Dear Brutus, is not in our stars; but in ourselves, that we are underlings."--William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar
"Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine."--John Milton in Paradise Lost
"I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul."--W. E. Henley in Invictus
"We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."--Carlos Castenada
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."--Anonymous
"What poison is to food, self-pity is to life."--Oliver C. Wilson
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."--Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
"I am happy and content because I think I am."--Alain-Rene Lesage
"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."--Abraham Lincoln
"Some pursue happiness, others create it."--Anonymous
"The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself."--Benjamin Franklin
"Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Each man the architect of his own fate."--Sallust
"The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man."--Roy Smith
"You have to do the work, no one can do it for you."--Dhammapada: The Right Way, verse 276
"It is only you who can master your self."--Dhammapada: Self, verse 160
"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will--his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals."--Albert Schweitzer
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."--William Shakespeare
"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."--Oprah Winfrey
"Not flattered by praise, not hurt by blame."--Buddhist saying
"An excuse is a lie guarded."--Jonathan Swift
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."--Francis Bacon
"Luck is where preparation meets opportunity."--Anonymous
"Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment."--Eric Butterworth
"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."--Michael Jordan
"While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done."--Helen Keller
"Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny."--Albert Ellis & Robert A. Harper, A Guide to Rational Living, Third Edition, p. 252.
"The only disability in life is a bad attitude."--Scott Hamilton
"Teaching the principle of emotional responsibility can be one of the hardest tasks in REBT as clients may have habitually blamed others for their problems and now the therapist is pointing to the true source of their emotional problems--themselves."--Michael Neenan and Windy Dryden, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy: Advances in Theory & Practice, page 43
"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."--Agnes Repplier
"A man's as miserable as he thinks he is."--Marcus Seneca
"Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it."--Ovid
"Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance."--Samuel Johnson
"If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources."--Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"There is no man so low that the cure for his condition does not lie strictly within himself."--Thomas L. Masson
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."--Mark Twain
"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."--Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980
"But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another."--Galatians 6:4
"Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?"--Annonymous
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."--Andy Warhol
"Don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for."--Marian Wright Edelman, 1939 -
"One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire."--John Foster
"He who conquers himself is mighty."--Buddhist saying
"It is only you who can master your self. But once this is done, it is a rare blessing."--The Dhammapada: Self, verse 160
"Who ranks as the highest? One who does not harm anything. One who never retaliates. One who is always at peace regardless of the other person's disposition."--The Dhammapada: The Highest, verses 405-406
"Be your own light. Be your own refuge. Confide in nothing outside of yourself. Hold fast to truth that it may be your guide. Hold fast to truth that it may be your protector."--Mahaparinibbana Sutta
"It is better to conquer yourself than to conquer a thousand others. Victory over others is a hollow gain, while victory over onself is something not even the gods can take reverse."--The Dhammapada: The Thousands, verses 103-105
"How does a person who cannot tame his desires differ from the most ignorant beast?"--Xenophon, Memorabilia
"There's a victory and defeat--the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats--which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself."--Plato, Protagoras
"No one is free, who is not master of himself."--Pythagoras
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."--Aristotle
"Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good."--Aristotle, Politics
"To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories."--Plato
"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect and self-respect is the chief element in courage."--Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesean War
"I realised that they had already taken everything from me except my mind and my heart. Those they could not take without my permission. I decided not to give them away. And neither should you."--Nelson Mandela
QUOTATIONS KEVIN
"A baby expects to be soothed, but a mature adult soothes themselves."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Adults are expert at self-disturbance and inept at self-soothing."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"No one has ever gotten to anyone."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"If pleasure first, then pain second."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Why is it that people are willing to take responsibility for their happiness or mild sadness but not their severe disturbance or great unhappiness?--why ego of course!"--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
