Quotes on responsibility
With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation.
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Edison Haines Quotes
Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of children as individual property and think of them as the next generation, then we can realize we all have a role to play.
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Charlotte Davis Kasl Quotes
The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility.
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Giosué Borsi Quotes
When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
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Louis Nizer Quotes
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.
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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes.
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Anne C. Weisberg Quotes
When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
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Author Unknown Quotes
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.
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Ken Keyes Quotes
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
I don't see the point of being a human being if you're not going to be responsible to your fellow human beings. Selfishness thefts away the human and reduces you to just a being.
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Candea Core-Starke Quotes
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.
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Bernard M. Baruch Quotes
If you mess up, 'fess up.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else.
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Ivern Ball Quotes
No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.
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Gerald W. Johnson Quotes
God has entrusted me with myself.
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Epictetus Quotes
"I must do something" always solves more problems than "Something must be done."
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Author Unknown Quotes
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it."
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Sidney J. Harris Quotes
Duty is what one expects from others.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
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Joan Didion Quotes
The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.
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Woodrow Wilson Quotes
I believe that all of us have the capacity for one adventure inside us, but great adventure is facing responsibility day after day.
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William Gordon Quotes
Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.
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William McFee Quotes
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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Booker T. Washington Quotes
We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.
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Pearl S. Buck Quotes
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
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James Allen Quotes
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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William James Quotes
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.
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Colin Wilson Quotes
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
"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."
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quotes
It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.
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Stanley Milgram Quotes