Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

Reality doesn't go away when it is ignored.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.

The generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.

One love, one heart, one destiny.

Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined or the insect, as well for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

The resources, advantages, and the powers of the American people are very great, and they have, consequently, succeed to equally great responsibilities.

We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it continues the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are—that is a fact.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

I never encounter anything except my responsibility.

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

In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.