"If you are to be, you must..." - Quote by Antoine De Saint Exupery
If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.
More by Antoine De Saint Exupery
“Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?”
“The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.”
“It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme.”
More on Responsibility
“From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.”
“Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.”
“The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.”
More on Self
“If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me.”
“I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.”
“A man has no enemy worse than himself.”