Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

~ Anne Frank

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You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

~ Alice Sebold

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The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

~ John C. Maxwell

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No-one will come in to rescue you. You just have to step out somehow, and make your dreams come true.

~ Moffat Machingura

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The prospect of living without interference, living in a world where windfalls and misfortunes were never by design, held no terror for him.

~ Ted Chiang

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Accountability and self-responsibility are critical to our success in personal, professional and public life. However, we often look for those character traits in others, rather than inculcating them in ourselves.

~ Vishwas Chavan

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Life is a balancing act. While we have all the rights to be in freedom, peace, harmony and bliss; we do have a responsibility to ensure that others too enjoy their own freedom, peace, harmony and bliss.

~ Vishwas Chavan

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Without self-esteem and respect for others, you cannot be true to your own values.

~ Auliq Ice

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Don't try to be happy, just be happy. Because your happiness does not depend on others. Be the reason for your own happiness.

~ Vishwas Chavan

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You want to set me free? Do it. You want to turn me in? You can do that too. You're the only one with the choice. And that bullet in your back doesn't mean you've got any less choice than you ever did. Live free of fear if you want to. We all carry something inside us that could kill us, yours just has a name. You want to change your life? Change it. You have no less of a right to be happy than the rest of us.

~ Greer Macallister

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But whatever happens, I've been happy. I've been loved. I've amazed crowds and drunk in their applause. Not because of luck or favor or magic. Because of will. My will. I've been willing to do whatever it takes. That's the closest thing I have to a secret. And now it's yours.It's a lot to think about, and he can't quite digest it. But there's a spark there. Maybe she's right about him. Maybe it is up to him, how much he lets the bullet, and the fear, take over his life. Maybe. Not a curse, but a choice. His agency and no one else's.

~ Greer Macallister

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Stand in your own two shoes.

~ T. Scott Mcleod

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The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

~ William Shakespeare

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... I could not bank on the phlegmatic Chinese, I would have to take care of it myself. This would be safer and also consistent with my own responsibility. The latter is the anarch’s ultimate authority.

~ Ernst Jünger

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