Becoming More

 

 

“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”

Tony Robbins

 

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

John D. Rockefeller

 

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Erica Jong

 

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

James Allen

 

You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.

Ken Keyes Jr.

 

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

George Bernard Shaw

 

You can't dodge your responsibilities by saying they don't exist!

Douglas Adams

 

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