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"Some favorite
expressions of small children: “It’s not my fault. . . They made me do it. .
. I forgot.” Some favorite expressions of adults: “It’s not my job. . . No
one told me. . . It couldn’t be helped.” True freedom begins and ends with
personal accountability."
-
Dan
Zadra
"I am not bound to win
but I am bound to be true;
I am not bound to succeed
but am bound to live up
to what light I have."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Thinking well is wise; planning well,
wiser; doing well wisest and best of all."
- Persian Proverb
"Nobody grows old by merely living a
number of years; people grow old only by deserting their ideals."
- Samuel Ullman
"To be what we are, and to become
what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life."
- Spinoza
"Culture is not just an ornament; it is
the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a
powerful instrument to mould character. The end of culture is right
living."
- W. Somerset Maugham
"There is only one real failure in
life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows."
- Farrar
"To give real service you must add
something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is
sincerity and integrity."
- Donald A. Adams
"A duty dodged is like a debt
unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at
last."
- Joseph Fort Newton
"It is easy to dodge our
responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our
responsibilities."
- Sir Josiah Stamp
"When we are really honest with
ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So
it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are."
- Ceasar Chavez
"God does not want us to do
extraordinary things; He wants us to do ordinary things extraordinarily
well."
- Bishop Gore
"The way to gain a good reputation is to
endeavor to be what you desire to be."
- Socrates
"The only true happiness comes from
squandering ourselves for a purpose."
- John Mason Brown
"It is not only what we do, but also
what we do not do, for which we are accountable."
- Moliere
"Don't get up from the feast of life
without paying for your share of it."
- W. R. Inge
"Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes real happiness. It is not obtained through
self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
- Helen Keller
"Every person's work, whether it be
literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always
a portrait of that person."
- Samuel Butler
"Truly great companies are built on
ideals, not just deals."
- Al Watts
"Let there be few words and many deeds,
and may they be done well."
- St. Vincent
Pallotti
"It is easier to fight for one's
principles than to live up to them."
- Alfred Adler
"A people that values its privileges
above its principles soon looses both."
- Dwight D.
Eisenhower
"To be what we are, and to become what we
are capable of becoming, is the only end in life."
- Robert Louis
Stevenson
"Hell is the place
for people who did not live their lives according to the best of what was in
them."
- Harriet Rubin
"Never promise more than you can
perform."
- Publilius Syrus
"Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the
one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time."
- Chilon
"Success seems to be largely a matter of
hanging on after others have let go."
- William Feather
"Teach us to
number our days and recognize how few they are; help us to spend them as we
should."
- Psalm 990: 12 TLB
"The smallest actual
good is better than the most magnificent promise of impossibilities."
- Macaulay
"Hell begins on the day when God grants
us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which
we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do."
- Gian-Carlo Menotti
"A man's treatment of money is the most
decisive test of his character - how he makes it and how he spends it."
- James Moffatt
"The realization of the self is only
possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own
potentialities."
- Goethe
"Man is asked to make of himself
what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny."
- Paul Tillich
"Every act of every man is a moral
act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria."
- Robert Maynard
Hutchins
"Nobody grows old by merely living a
number of years; people grow old only by deserting their ideals."
- Samuel Ullma
"There is not a right way to do a
wrong thing."
- Bits and Pieces
"We must be careful that the
business we build does not become mere busyness."
- Al Watts
"Aim above morality. Be not simply
good; be good for something."
- Henry David Thoreau
"The right to do something does not
mean that doing it is right."
- William Safire
"Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain;
the one brings pain in the moment, the other for all time."
- Chilon
"Make the most of yourself, for that
is all there is of you."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Common sense is the knack of seeing
things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."
- Stowe
"Nobody grows old by merely living a
number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals."
- Watterson Lowe
"Keep true, never be ashamed of
doing right; decide on what you think is right, and stick to it."
- George Eliot
"No man can tell if he is rich or poor by
turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He
is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has."
- Henry Ward Beecher
"Healing of the world's woes will
not come through this or that social or political theory; not through
violent changes in government, but in the still small voice that speaks to
the conscience and the heart."
- Arthur J. Moore, D.
D.
"The greatest use of life is to
spend it for something that will outlast it."
- William James
"Be faithful to that which exists
nowhere but in yourself."
- Andre Gide
"If you insist on measuring
yourself, put the tape around your heart rather than your head. Try
measuring your wealth by who you are, rather than by what you have."
- Carol Trabelle
"Remember that you are unique.
If that has not been fulfilled, then something wonderful has been lost."
- Martha Graham
"Happiness is the state of
consciousness which proceeds from achievement of one's values."
- Ayn Rand
"The secret of success is constancy
to purpose."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"The real tragedy of life is not
that each of us doesn't have enough strengths, it's that we fail to use the
ones we have."
- Marcus Buckhingham
and Donald O. Clifton
(In Now Discover Your Stengths)
"Everyone has talent. What is rare
is the courage to follow that talent to the dark places where it leads."
- Erica Jong
"You don't choose the day you enter
the world and you don't chose the day you leave. It's what you do in
between that makes all the difference."
- Anita Septimus
"The vast possibilities of our great
future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for those
realities."
- Gifford Pinchot
"There is only one real failure in
life that is possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows."
- Farrar
"The ultimate test of a moral
society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Success is more permanent when you
achieve it without destroying your principles."
- Walter Cronkite
"If you have integrity, nothing else
matters; if you don't have integrity, nothing else matters."
- Alan Simpson
"What distinguishes the minority of
men from the many is their ability to act according to their beliefs."
- John Stuart Mill
"Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes real happiness. It is not obtained through
self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
- Helen Keller
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever
feels responsible."
- George Burns
"Integrity is so perishable in the
summer of success."
- Vanessa Redgrave
"The only thing it takes for evil to
succeed is for someone to say "It's a business."
- Alan Shore ("Boston
Legal" character)
"When you get right down to the root
meaning of the word "succeed", you find that it simply means to follow
through."
- F. W. Nichol
"Everyone sooner or later sits down
to a banquet of consequences."
- Robert Louis
Stevenson
"The art of living well and the art
of dying well are one."
- Epicurus
"Be life long or short, its
completeness depends on what it was lived for."
- David Starr Jordan
"The key to growth is to learn to
make promises and to keep them."
- Stephen R. Covey
"Don't judge each day by the harvest
you reap, but by the seeds you plant."
- Robert Louis
Stevenson
"The reputation of a thousand years
may be determined by the conduct of one hour."
- Japanese proverb
"The law of the harvest is to recap more
than you sow. Sow an act, and you recap a habit; sow a habit, and you
recap character, sow a character and you reap a destiny."
- G. D. Boardman
"Some favorite expressions of small
children: "It's not my fault... They made me do it... I forgot." Some
favorite expressions of adults: "It's not my job... No one told me... It
couldn't be helped." True freedom begins and ends with personal
accountability."
- Dan Zadra
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