Adoniram Judson Quotes

Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16)

You have to take responsibility for how you act. You can't fix everyone.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

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.

I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.

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

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

My power for good, whatever it may, would be gone if I didn’t try to live up to the doctrines I have tried to preach.

Becoming a mother has made all the difference in terms of learning to take more responsibility for myself and my life. Parenthood changed the way I do everything.

We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me.

All I can control is what I do when I step on the floor.

I am a thinker, and I do muse over things a lot and am constantly assessing whether I am doing enough or what I should be doing more of to make sure I am not letting anyone down.

One thing I realized, I was making too many excuses and not taking responsibility for how I was playing.

I realize everything's on me as far as what kind of player, person, and student I'm going to be.

In retrospect, I had a lot of shortcomings and didn't take care of the things that needed to be taken care of, and that's all my fault.

One of the greatest challenges in creating a joyful, peaceful and abundant life is taking responsibility for what you do and how you do it. As long as you can blame someone else, be angry with someone else, point the finger at someone else, you are not taking responsibility for your life.

Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg'd, make thy accounts agree.

Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.