“ In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. Eleanor Roosevelt
“ Man is still responsible. ... His success lies not with the stars but with himself. He must carry on the fight of self-correction and discipline. Frank Curtis Williams
“ It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room. Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
“ One has to handle these negative experiences alone. You can't get help from your friends or family. You're finally alone with it and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on. Shirley Temple Black
“ I am responsible for my own well-being my own happiness. The choices and decisions I make regarding my life directly influence the quality of my days. Kathleen Tierney Andrus
“ Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands. Cathy Better
“ Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise ... his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals. Albert Schweitzer
“ The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them. George Bernard Shaw
“ To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you that you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive. Robert Louis Stevenson
“ Felicity felicity ... is quaffed out of a golden cup ... the flavour is with you alone and you can make it as intoxicating as you please. Joseph Conrad
“ To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy or to pursue any excessive desire diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self. Eric Hoffer
“ We are taught you must blame your father your sisters your brothers the school the teachers-you can blame anyone but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault becau… Katharine Hepburn
“ People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make th… George Bernard Shaw
“ I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers but you… Harriet Beecher Stowe
“ Do not rely completely on any other human being however dear. We meet all of life's greatest tests alone. Agnes Macphail
“ If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors we are at least responsible for those we admit and entertain. Charles B. Newcomb
