Quotes about Responsibility
In any organization, someone must be the boss. If it's even just one person, you've got to be the boss of yourself.
— Malcolm X
Bütün uyuyanlar? uyand?rmaya bir tek uyan?k yeter.
— Malcolm X
Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of you - how do you think I feel to have to tell you, 'We, my generation, sat around like a knot on a wall while the whole world was fighting for its human rights - and you've got to be born into a society where you still have that same fight.' What did we do, who preceded you? I'll tell you what we did. Nothing. And don't you make the same mistake we made....
— Malcolm X
The well-meaning white people, I said, had to combat, actively and directly, the racism in other white people. And
— Malcolm X
I got on top of a car and began waving my arms and yelling at them to quiet down. They did quiet down, and then I asked them to disperse - and they did.
— Malcolm X
He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could carry, and no true leader sets too fast a pace for his followers to Keep up.
— Malcolm X
If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.
— Marcus Aurelius
Remember how long you have been putting off these things, and how often you have received an opportunity from the gods, and yet do not use it.
— Marcus Aurelius
He who eats my bread does my will.
— Marcus Aurelius
How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavour to flee from another's, which is not.
— Marcus Aurelius
He that sinneth, sinneth unto himself. He that is unjust, hurts himself, in that he makes himself worse than he was before. Not he only that committeth, but he also that omitteth something, is oftentimes unjust.
— Marcus Aurelius
Justice: so that you'll speak the truth, frankly and without evasions, and act as you should—and as other people deserve.
— Marcus Aurelius