Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: 1. Admit it. 2. Learn from it, and 3. Don’t repeat it.
When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice.
Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won.
Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.
Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.
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.