Dimitri Payet Quotes

I don't owe any explanations for anybody I'm fighting.

People have the right to say what they want, but as long as I can go to bed at night and look myself in the mirror, I'll be all right.

It's not my style to blame anybody else.

For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

I have impeached myself by resigning.

Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.

In dreams begins responsibility.

Not only will you be held accountable for the things you do, but you will be held responsible for the very thoughts you think.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Freedom comes with a lot of responsibility. When you are by yourself, you have to develop a third eye.

From those to whom much is given, much is expected. I have been given much - the love of my family, the faith and trust of the people of New York, and the chance to lead this state. I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

I've done enough wrong on my own, I don't want to get blamed for something I didn't do.

I don't have anyone curbing my instincts, doing anything destructive to my self opinion.

We can't go out and tell ourselves we've done good if we haven't.

I know that in my public life I fell below the standards that I had set myself... I have seen what is wrong but not done enough to put it right. I have been more critical than correct.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

I try not to think about anybody's reaction to what I do.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

We need to hold ourselves accountable for the work we do and the choices we make.

Sometimes I see myself as a locked box - very detached from myself and others. But I feel lucky, because I am the owner of my time, and you cannot buy time.

I don't have to explain anything to anybody.

I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all the time. The goal is not to somehow be perfect - that's silly, that's naive. The goal is to just recognize there are choices in front of us, and to try to make better ones.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.