We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.
Your life is too important to give it to distractions.
Lasting happiness comes from steadily working to accomplish your goals and advancing in the direction of your life’s purpose.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don’t have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
You can’t dodge your responsibilities by saying they don’t exist!
We’re all flawed heroes. Responsibility is power. Take responsibility for the consequences of your actions, and the world is yours. Everything is a choice.
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!
Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
You don’t need to change the world; you need to change yourself.
I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.
Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am master of my fate and captain of my soul.
Never hope for it more than you work for it.
A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.
Leave it better than you found it.
Be proud of your choices, not your gifts.