Bill Clinton Quotes

There is no entitlement without a duty.

It is time to break the bad habit of expecting something for nothing from our Government or from each other. Let us all take more responsibility not only for ourselves and our families but our communities and our country.

I don't expect anyone to give me anything.

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

I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.

You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.

Duties and rights are reciprocal

Whoever can, should.

I have a rough time wanting to spend billions and billions and trillions of dollars to help people who won't help themselves, won't lift a finger, and expect the federal government to do everything.

I don't want to raise someone who feels entitled.

Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.

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.

The people who founded America, who fought for its freedom, did not look to anyone else to get them out of their troubles. They took matters into their own hands and answered only to God and their peers. In today's world, sacrifice and hardship are not in the everyday language, and instant gratification is foremost.

Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment. To not become a country that places comfortable lies ahead of difficult truths. To not become a people that thinks so little of ourselves that we demand no sacrifice from each other.

In football, it's the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.

Maintain yourself and everything maintains itself around you.

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.

Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.

The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.