True leaders take responsibility while false leaders blame.

When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

We ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.

The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.

Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

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

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

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.

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.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

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.

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

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.

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

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