Tom Graves Quotes

I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

I've learned that people will seldom let you down if they understand that your destiny is in their hands, and vice versa.

I feel that each and every one of us as individuals has a responsibility to one another. None of us would be here without the help of someone else - whether it be guardians, teachers, parents, relatives, etc. - someone contributed to your well being as a person. We're all connected in so many different ways.

A relationship takes two people to make or break it.

Frontiersman ideas of individualism stand exposed as we realise just how much our actions impact others.

The world owes us nothing; we owe each other the world.

My mother let me know that we're all connected. If some of us become more affluent it's not because we're better or even smarter people - we have a responsibility to ourselves to be a good boy.

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities.

People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that's the really crazy thing.

I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I'm not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I'm not talking about co-dependency, I'm talking about giving people the opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up.

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

Everybody is someone else's instrument.

There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police We must love one another or die.

Partnership implies that the individual has responsibilities as well as rights.

We live in an interdependent world. We depend on one another for prosperity.

When people believe they need each other, they cooperate.

When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself.

You cannot just exercise your rights and get away without performing your responsibilities. Understand that it should not be about 'me' but rather 'us.'

The world has done nothing to me that I haven't done with the world.

The people of South Jersey are counting on me.

I pay my tax in the belief that you pay yours. I pay for your doctor's visit, in the belief that you pay for mine. In Denmark we don't have gold mines, but we have something more important. We have trust in one another.

We live in a society where individual effort and progress is valued, and that's absolutely correct and is as it should be. But we also are interdependent creatures. We can't succeed solely on our own.

When you come to Denmark, you have the chance to live in a free, peaceful country with access to free education, free medical aid and the opportunity to work. To benefit from that requires responsibility. If you don't assume that responsibility, it is a breach in trust.

Humans have to realise they're not individuals but individual parts of the same organism, with responsibility to each other.