3 posts tagged “responsibility”

"With great power comes great responsibility." - Uncle Ben Parker

Even Spiderman is responsible for his own laundry.

 

The problem never lies outside of us.

When we blame people, we turn them into the enemy. They’re not. They’re a mirror of how we feel about ourselves.

If you don’t feel good about yourself, you’ll listen to people when they tell you that you’re not good enough.

If you abuse yourself and tell yourself you’re not good enough, you’ll listen to people who abuse you.

But if you believe in your inner beauty, you’ll listen to the people who tell you how wonderful you are.

If you believe in your inner goodness, you won’t have time for people who abuse you.

 

 

If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.  ~Max Nordau

Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners.  ~Laurence Sterne

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.  ~Joan Didion

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.  ~Joan Didion

        If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself.  Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.  ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky