“ To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. ”
- Alan Paton- Copy
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“ One can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it. ”
- Benvenuto Cellini- Copy
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“ I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. ”
- Bob Dylan- Copy
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“ The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility. ”
- Brooks Atkinson- Copy
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“ There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
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“ Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. ”
- G. M. Trevelyan- Copy
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“ Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense. ”
- Holly Lisle- Copy
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“ So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination. ”
- J. B. S. Haldane- Copy
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“ There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction. The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, the responsibility lies with you. ”
- J. K. Rowling- Copy
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“ In every child who is born under no matter what circumstances and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again, and in him, too, once more, and each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life: toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terrorism, and of God. ”
- James Agee- Copy
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“ Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs. ”
- Joan Didion- Copy
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“ I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. ”
- John D. Rockefeller- Copy
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“ Taking responsibility gives us power and control, because when we recognize the relationship between our choices and their consequences, then the next time we don’t like a consequence we can make a different choice. ”
- Julie A. M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran- Copy
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“ The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves. ”
- Oscar Arias Sanchez- Copy
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“ We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. ”
- Richard Feynman- Copy
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“ Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
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“ Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah. ”
- Richard Bach- Copy
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“ The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life. ”
- Brian Tracy- Copy
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“ Every subject's duty is the king's, but every subject's soul is his own. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ We have an obligation to support libraries. To use libraries, to encourage others to use libraries, to protest the closure of libraries. If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future. ”
- Neil Gaiman- Copy
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“ Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the only quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility. ”
- Michael Korda- Copy
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“ One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'. ”
- Dan Quayle- Copy
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“ There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
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“ Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs. ”
- Joan Didion- Copy
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“ A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the Universe, "the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.". ”
- Stephen Crane- Copy
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