Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

When it's all you, you can't blame a bear. You gotta bear the burden yourself.

I have only my own burden to bear.

We must each of us bear our own misfortunes.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics, to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.

So much illness is self-induced - which I can't stand. And I'm not a good nursemaid. Don't call me if you're ill.

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed.

It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.

There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure.

I don't have to go around trying to save everybody anymore; that's not my job.

It's a huge responsibility being a solo act.

I frequently say that I never share blame, I never share credit, and I never share desserts!

I know how to make myself comfortable.

I don't really expect anything from anyone else that I wouldn't do myself.

Nobody's going to help me when I get in that ring. That's how I like it: the responsibility's on me, and whatever happens is down to me, nobody else.

Ultimately, I play for myself, and I take responsibility for my own actions.

I do stuff on my own, I think for myself, and I've always looked out for others.

No true Latter-Day Saint, while physically or emotionally able will voluntarily shift the burden of his own or his family's well-being to someone else. So long as he can, under the inspiration of the Lord and with his own labors, he will supply himself and his family with the spiritual and temporal necessities of life.

To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone.

You have people like Sarah Jessica Parker - and it's also because of her mother and where she came from and all that stuff - but how you're taught to be responsible for yourself rather than endlessly people waiting for you and bringing you things.

Somebody says, 'Well, I can't be concerned about other people. About the best I can do is to take care of myself' Well, then you will always be poor.

Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.

One hundred percent my mother, who would always say, "If you want something done, do it yourself." She must have said that 100 times to me - as a child, as a young woman, yesterday on the phone.

I very linearly [sic] wish you would exert yourself so as to keep all your matters in order your self without depending on others as that is the only way to be happy to have all your business in your own hands.