All leadership begins from inside a person and must be developed and grown as they grow into emerging and enduring leaders

It’s easy to make a mess when you’re not the one who has to clean it up.

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...

WATCH out for your surroundings, UPGRADE your mindset and keep FOCUS.

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

I don’t know how often opportunity knocks, but temptations to make foul decisions bang on my door all day long. And smelly decisions make for smelly problems later on. A few little decisions, good or...

Never Expect Loyalty From A Person That Can’t Give You Honesty.

If you’re early, you’re on time. If you’re on time, you’re late.

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

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...

The mould of a man’s fortune is in his own hands.

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...

And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

When children are taught to be “good” and keep everyone happy, it teaches them that they have the impossible burden of being responsible for other people’s happiness.

If a player won’t shoulder responsibility, he won’t work on his weaknesses, which means he won’t improve. He’ll be constantly on the prowl for a fall guy or a scapegoat, and his teammates becomes epidemic.

A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have...

The use of fake data … is what I have to take full responsibility for as first author. I acknowledge all of that and apologize once again.

Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.

In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with...

Learn from me, for as I teach, I learn from you as well! Always be accountable to yourself and take complete responsibility for your own life. No one can do as much for you, as...

She found herself wondering at what point in her life she had ceased to be Gulliver and had become the strings holding him to the ground.

A man can never be truly free when he knows that he is neglecting his duties elsewhere.

There is no ownership. There is only stewardship.

When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others.

She knew his secret: for all his wandering, his independence and his unorthodox ways, he took his responsibilities very seriously. He even borrowed others’ responsibilities, making them his own simply because he thought this sort...

We want to support every player, and I think every player knows he has a responsibility for what to do and what not to do. As a coach, I also feel a responsibility to put...

From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch.

I ought to grow up successfully, and I’m sure it will be my own fault if I don’t. I feel it’s a great responsibility because I have only one chance. If I don’t grow up...

The real social contract, (Edmund Burke) argued, was not Rousseau’s social contract between the noble savage and the General Will, but a “partnership” between the present generation and future generations.

There is no fault, only responsibility.

Don’t make excuses; accept responsibility. You must take responsibility for how you respond to everything that happens in your life; whether you cause it or not. Making excuses is a weak response!

The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them.

By exiling human judgment in the last few decades, modern law changed role from useful tool to brainless tyrant. This legal regime will never be up to the job, any more than the Soviet system...

Who can see inside the deepest recesses of your imagination and manifest those wishes into your daily experience? Who can appreciate those subtle nuances of character you’ve acquired by overcoming your deepest fears? Who can...

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

We are but cells living in a much larger organism, however, this does not make our existence less significant – for an organism without cells is no organism at all. We define it; we make...

Corporate social responsibility is not a fad. In fact, there are structural reasons why this is happening and happening so widely,

A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really stands in their place. He is not an isolated individual, but incorporates the...

To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy – that is the greatest dare.

It may sound reactionary, I know. But we can all feel it. We’ve changed the way we think of ourselves as citizens. We don’t think of ourselves as citizens in the old sense of being...

The difference between where you are now and where you will get to later defines your range of work which you have to be responsible for.

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must — at that moment — become the center of the universe.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

I think we can say this is an absolutely wonderful thing that the jury takes their job and responsibility as seriously as the lawyers and police did in this case.

Your success is your responsibility. Take the initiative, do the work, and persist to the end.

If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.

We don’t have 100 inspectors to check the sites. It’s the builders’ responsibility to maintain the sites.