Quotes about Responsibility

Circumstance does not make the man;

A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life.

Do not long to do great and laudable things; these will do themselves if you do your present task nobly.

Man is made or unmade via himself; within the armoury of thought he forges the weapons via which he destroys himself; he additionally models the gear with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of pleasure and power and peace.

thus does a man garner in the sweet and bitter fruitage of his own husbandry.

Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself. That

A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine...

No power, no event, no circumstance, can compel a man to evil and unhappiness. He himself is his own compeller. He thinks and acts by his own volition. No being, however wise and great--not even the Supreme--can make him good and happy. He himself must choose the good, and thereby find the happy.

We begin to be mature adults only when we cease to whine and revile and commence to search for the hidden justice which regulates our lives.

Act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and bitter fruitage of his own husbandry. Thought

When a man burns himself, does he accuse the fire? Therefore, when a man suffers, let him look for some ignorance or disobedience within himself.

Un hombre sólo empieza a ser hombre cuando deja de lamentarse y maldecir, y comienza a buscar la justicia oculta que gobierna su vida.