All Quotes By Tag: Responsibility

“I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit.”

“Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man’s lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one’s self.”

“Never compromise your values.”

“The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them.”

“And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”

“We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. “I’m this way because my father made me this way. I’m this way because my husband made me this way.” Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.”

“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.”

“The function of freedom is to free someone else.”

“you don’t have to worry about burning bridges, if you’re building your own”

“Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must — at that moment — become the center of the universe.”

“To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn’t just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it’s an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.”[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]”

“The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.”

“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”

“If you hang out with chickens, you’re going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you’re going to fly.”

“Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.”