personal-responsibility

According to most studies on the subject, boys who grow up without fathers grow up at a disadvantage.

When a boy feels as if no one cares about him, or as if he will never amount to anything, he truly believes it doesn__ matter what he does.

Teaching a boy to be a man is the primary job of a father.

The truth no matter how hard it is to bear, must be accepted and confronted head on because it is real. Businesses and people who accept truth soar.

It is less about becoming a better person, and more of being better, as a person.

Whenever I am in a difficult situation where there seems to be no way out, I think about all the times I have been in such situations and say to myself, "I did it before, so I can do it again.

We do not get to choose how we start out in life. We do not get to choose the day we are born or the family we are born into, what we are named at birth, what country we are born in, and we do not get to choose our ancestry. All these things are predetermined by a higher power. By the time you are old enough to start making decisions for yourself, a lot of things in your life are already in place. It__ important, therefore, that you focus on the future, the only thing that you can change.

The world is a dangerous place, but there is no better world. Remember every one of us is responsible to make the world a joyful place.

Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important.

The ego might resist change until a person__ level of discomfort becomes unbearable. A person can employ logic to overcome the ego__ defense mechanism and intentionally integrate needed revisions in a person__ obsolete or ineffective beliefs and behavior patterns. The subtle sense that something is amiss in a person__ life can lead to a gradual or quick alteration in a person__ conscious thoughts and outlook on life. Resisting change can prolong unhappiness whereas implementing change can establish internal harmony and instate joy in a person__ life.

If not now, then when?

If not us, then who?If not now, then when?

It__ your life to live. Own it! You have to live with yourself for the rest of your life.

When national ideals are confined to insignificant issues reflective primarily of a personal choice, there lies a problem of distorted priorities.

Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in...A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice.

Taking responsibility for oneself is by definition an act of kindness.

Self-pity is spiritual suicide. It is an indefensible self-mutilation of the soul.

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