You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes.
Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.
I wasn't lucky, I deserved it.
If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.
When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t.
Making excuses burns zero calories per hour.
Your workouts are important meetings you scheduled with yourself. Bosses don’t cancel.
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault. Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion.
Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.
If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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.