Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward – get real with yourself.
Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.
If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.
Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.
Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!
We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.
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.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.
Learn to distinguish what you can and can’t control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They are directly subject to our influence.
An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.
God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me, but you can’t fool God!
If you vote and you elect dishonest, incompetent people into office who screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You caused the problem; you voted them in; you have no right to complain.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
Ideas without action are worthless.
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
Life will let you get away with something for a while, but sooner or later, you will pay the price. Everything you do in life causes the effects that you experience. When you get the bill, be prepared to pay.
Don’t say, “If I could, I would.” Say, “If I can, I will.”
It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts.