Responsibility Quotations
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| A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. | |||
| - James Allen | |||
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| "I must do something" always solves more problems than "Something must be done." | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| If you mess up, 'fess up. | |||
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| When you blame others, you give up your power to change. | |||
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| Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular. | |||
| - Bernard M. Baruch | |||
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| Responsibility: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star. | |||
| - Ambrose Bierce | |||
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| We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights. | |||
| - Pearl S. Buck | |||
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| The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. | |||
| - Albert Ellis | |||
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| God has entrusted me with myself. | |||
| - Epictetus | |||
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| With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation. | |||
| - Edison Haines | |||
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| We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it." | |||
| - Sydney J. Harris | |||
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| Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow. | |||
| - Henry S. Haskins | |||
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| A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed. | |||
| - William James | |||
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| Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. | |||
| - Erica Jong | |||
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| We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities. | |||
| - Bill Maher | |||
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| Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight. | |||
| - William McFee | |||
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| I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. | |||
| - John D. Rockefeller | |||
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| "It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet." | |||
| - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |||
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| We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. | |||
| - George Bernard Shaw | |||
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| Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater freedom and opportunity. But what is there today, in America, that very poor and very rich adolescents want to do but cannot do? Not much: they can "do" drugs, "have" sex, "make" babies, and "get" money (from their parents, crime, or the State). For such adolescents, adulthood becomes synonymous with responsibility rather than liberty. Is it any surprise that they remain adolescents? | |||
| - Thomas Szasz | |||
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| If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. | |||
| - Abigail Van Buren | |||
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| Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him. | |||
| - Booker T. Washington | |||
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| Duty is what one expects from others. | |||
| - Oscar Wilde | |||
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| Dr. Miller says we are pessimistic because life seems like a very bad, very screwed-up film. If you ask "What the hell is wrong with the projector?" and go up to the control room, you find it's empty. You are the projectionist, and you should have been up there all the time. | |||
| - Colin Wilson | |||
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| The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us. | |||
| - Woodrow Wilson | |||