William Arthur Ward Quotes

It is every one's sacred duty to keep himself in a condition to do the biggest thing possible to him.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

Your life~the way it looks today is a result of your choices...What will you choose today for your tomorrows?

The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.

Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can.

The future is in our power. Let us, then, each morning, resolve to send the day into eternity in such a garb as we shall wish it to wear forever. And at night, let us reflect that one more day is irrevocably gone, indelibly marked.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

Iraq assumes responsibility for its own future... They have got to step up.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.

Everybody's got to do what they've got to do.

The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

... the even more fundamental task that lies before the leader of a democracy is to bring to the people the realization that true democracy is the effort of the people individually to carry their share of the burden of government.

In life, you get one choice over and over again. That is to take conditions as they are or take responsibility for changing them.

I've got to do what I've got to do, for me, my family and my kids.

I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.

Take full responsibility for your life, move forward in the direction of your dreams

I was in the Air Force a while and they had what they call "policing the area." That's where you looked around and if there's anything wrong here, there, anywhere, you took care of your own area. And I think that's a pretty good thing to go by. If everyone just takes care of their own area then we won't have any problems. Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there. And look around you and see what needs to be changed.

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation.

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

Our responsibility to ourselves comes first -- because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others!

Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.