Joseph Smith Jr. Quotes

It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person's behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself.

Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capcity to govern someone else.

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

I only have control over what I do.

Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important.

It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

I am in control at all times.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Tell the people not to depend on me anymore.

Each person is his own judge.

Only a fool manages himself.

Coach Boeheim, he's really not like a lot of coaches. We don't do shoot-arounds, we don't have curfews. So I think he teaches you how to be a man and how to be responsible for yourself.

I lead a very disciplined life.