Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes

In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Anything which tends to bring a greater sense of responsibility to individuals should be encouraged.

It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure.

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

Responsibility educates.

Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.

I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do.

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

We children learned responsibility automatically.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.

You need responsibility in life.

You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.

I grew up very disciplined and doing what I had to do.

I had no plans to become a responsible person.

If you want to be pro, you have to hold yourself accountable. It's about what you do when nobody's looking.

It's a great thing to have: that pressure everywhere you go, that responsibility. I think it's good to have it.

When you're a professional you gotta do it [your job] when you don't feel like doing it.

The disciplined are free.