L. Lionel Kendrick Quotes

It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.

I try to make the right decisions.

Once you realize that you're in something that you've always wanted and you don't want to lose it, you behave differently. And that means the integrity, the professionalism, and knowing what's right from wrong and still making choices that you probably wouldn't have made.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Actions will be judged according to intentions.

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to well, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to do.

If someone has it inside them to commit an act, then that act would be committed anyway. It's very easy for someone to place the blame on something other than the person who committed the act. It's people looking for scapegoats, you know?

We have, all of us, our duties. Every action of our lives, and every word that we utter, will either conduce to or detract from the discharge of our duty.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.

I'm not immune to disciplinary problems and it's up to me to make strong choices. It's my responsibility.

Freedom requires responsibility to choose who we are above and beyond our immediate impulses, needs, and social pressures, so that we can genuinely express the type of person we want to be, live the life we truly want to live, leave the legacy we desire.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.

The right actions undertaken for the right reasons generally lead to good outcomes over time.

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

It would be dangerous territory if I wasn't practising what I preach which is to always accept responsibility, always accept the consequences of your actions.

I try to stay in line and not be a jerk. I've always been conscious that if I really screw up, people might notice.

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.