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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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Browse Quotations about Responsibility

A free man is a jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.
A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.
A man carries his success or his failure with him, it does not depend on outside conditions.
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with -- a man is what he makes of himself.
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.
Accountability breeds response-ability.
All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.
All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't help but take responsibility.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.
As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.
Be more aware of responsibility than you are of your rights.
Bear one another's burdens.
Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.
Each is responsible for his own actions.
Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over which we have traveled, and if the feature road looms ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting-inviting, then we need to gather our resolve and carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that one as well.
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.
Freedom is a package deal -- with it comes responsibilities and consequences.
From my tribe I take nothing I am the maker of my own fortune.
God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.
Good men prefer to be accountable.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.
I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.
I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have ? life itself.
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty.
I don't remember, I didn't do it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it
I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.
I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my own hands.
I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
If people concentrated on their responsibilities, others would have their rights.
If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself.
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
In dreams begin responsibility.
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for finding himself. If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Life's heaviest burden is to have nothing to carry.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility.
Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing... they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.
More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man -- he -- himself.
Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than what he ought to expect from them.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.
No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.
No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.
No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Nobody can do it for you.
Nothing happens by itself. It all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
One can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it.
One must care about a world one will not see.
One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.
Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself.
Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.
Psychologically I should say that a person becomes an adult at the point when he produces more than he consumes or earns more than he spends. This may be a the age of eighteen, twenty-five, or thirty-five. Some people remain unproductive and dependent children forever and therefore intellectually and emotionally immature.
Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
Responsibility educates.
Responsibility is the price of greatness.
Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
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.
The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.
The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.