Mentors won’t make you rich. Doctors won’t make you healthy. Nutritionists won’t make you slim. Teachers won’t make you smart. Gurus won’t make you calm. Trainers won’t make you fit. Ultimately, you have to take...

I have often thought that Walter Mitty had it in him to be more than a hen-pecked loser. Instead of living it up as a flamboyant daredevil in his dreams, he could have chosen to...

Resiliency is the body’s internal response to a stressful situation.

Life is a planetary level phenomenon and the Earth has been alive for at least 3000 million years. To me the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable—the rhetoric of the...

Her happiness is not my responsibility. She should be happy and I should be happy individually. Then we come together and share our happiness. Giving someone a responsibility to make you happy when you can’t...

Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel’s plea, ‘My forbears did the same.

Like tiny gods, all that we say and do holds a power so great that any one of us in any given moment can be responsible for the birth of a new civilization or the...

The secretary-general as of today is perceived as a diplomat and political person who has responsibility, this is how he is perceived rather than as a manager. And proper tribute is paid to him for...

Those who wish even to focus on the problem of a Christian ethic are faced with an outrageous demand-from the outset they must give up, as inappropriate to this topic, the very two questions that...

Goodness is sparked by a caution for the sake of what is good, not fear of what is bad.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you’ve trained them.

battery” one, in the conditions of artificiality in which it lives, with artificial light and chemical feed.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

It was not enough that food aplenty was within Man’s grasp: he wanted more.It was not enough that prey surrendered themselves to Man according to the natural order: Man wanted to cook his prey. Man...

The needs are too great, and there are too few of us. We have a duty, a responsibility to help others. It’s not all about fun. It’s not always easy.

One of the great self-deceptions–and one of the great foolishnesses–is to tell yourself, Only I will know. Only you will know that you are a liar; only you will know you deal unethically with people...

One of the most jolting days of adulthood comes the first time you run out of toilet paper. Toilet paper, up until this point, always just existed. And now it’s a finite resource, constantly in...

The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else’s responsibility until I’m ready to eat it.

He treated me like a son and I let him down. I must take some responsibility for him getting the sack. I regret letting him down so much.

I take responsibility for all of it. It all rests with me. We don’t have to look real far to find somebody. I’m to blame.

This concept of the afterlife really functions as a substitute for wisdom. It functions as a substitute for really absorbing our predicament, which is that everyone is going to die; there are circumstances that are...

The concept of disease is fast replacing the concept of responsibility. With increasing zeal Americans use and interpret the assertion “I am sick” as equivalent to the assertion “I am not responsible”: Smokers say they...

Religion forces every individual to take responsibility. Specifically, take it away from yourself and give it to God. If we had to be accountable for every one of our actions, we’d be crippled with indecision....

You can’t do it for someone else. No matter how much they motivate or inspire you, you have to do it for yourself. Your health is YOUR responsibility.

Here today, may be gone tomorrow! Never take anyone or nothing for granted! Be sure to count your blessing daily because tomorrow isn’t promised.

The ArmfulFor every parcel I stoop down to seizeI lose some other off my arms and knees,And the whole pile is slipping, bottles, buns,Extremes too hard to comprehend at. onceYet nothing I should care to...

It is your life…OWN IT! Your life purpose empowers you and enables you to live life abundantly. Empowerment begins by taking responsibility for your life and being accountable for your actions. Empowerment is the courage...

I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

Living off others is a form of bondage—for if you take from a person his responsibility to care for himself, you also take from him the opportunity to be free.

I don’t think Will Herondale and a sense of responsibility are even on speaking terms

Honor is no phantom. Duty doesn’t melt away, no matter how much we might wish it to.

There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within–not without. It is each man’s own affair.

If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.

Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children’s diet, and the government’s role should be to make certain it provides the best information possible to help people stay healthy.

The white man will never be alone. Let him be just, and deal kindly with my people. For the dead are not powerless.

I don’t have a ‘side’—I’m responsible for what I say and nothing else.

A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.

When you are given a duty, you must honour responsibility.

There are only two things that determine whether you’re old enough to do something — whether you understand what the hell you’re getting yourself into — and whether you’re willing to accept responsibility for it...

Ultimately, the responsibility rests with the drivers, and they seemed to respond to the message we were putting out.

It’s like a shifting of loan repayment responsibility, collateralized by Midway shares.

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts.

People like to say love is unconditional, but it’s not, and even if it was unconditional, it’s still never free. There’s always an expectation attached. They always want something in return. Like they want you...

To some women, a job plays the role of a man. To most women, a man plays the role of a job.

I never really grew up until I had kids.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

When you grow and rise above the masses, you will always become a target. Just as the flower grows above the grass, it becomes a target for the nourishment of the rays of sunshine, it...

I truly wanted to live a life in which I could make my own choices, independent of the ‘duties’ of my birth and position. It was only when fate granted that to me that I...

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.