Carlos Castaneda Quotes

One cannot govern with 'buts'.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

[President] McKinley gave [Lt. Andrew Sommers] Rowan a letter to be delivered to [General Calixto] Garcia: Rowan took the letter and did not ask, "Where is he at?" By the eternal, there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college in the land. It is not book learning that young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do the thing—"carry a message to Garcia.

Whether someone signs something is not what's important. It's what they do and how they do it that matters.

If you're not gonna pull the trigger, don't point the gun.

To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else.

I will not hesitate. Not for a second.

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.

Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, 'Do or do not. There is no try.'

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.

It is the responsibility of every human to know their actions and the consequences of their actions and to ask questions and to question things when they are wrong.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.

I'm responsible for what I say, but I'm not responsible about how people interpret my situation.

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action.

I realize that you have to show up for your life.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention.

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

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

The purpose firm is equal to the deed.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

I stand behind everything I've done.