Personal Responsibility Quotes - Page 5

• I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Believe, Responsibility, Impact

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• Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Freedom, Responsibility

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.167, Open Road Media

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• There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility. Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen. In such vital matters blind reliance upon 'experts' and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people's domination. As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Determination, Mean, Responsibility

  "Human Action". Book by Ludwig von Mises, 1949.

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• 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.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Responsibility, Childhood, Fixing

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• Socialism has been preached for so long, the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility.

  Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet

  Responsibility, Long, People

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• A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility

  Tom Brokaw

  War, Responsibility, Generations

  Tom Brokaw (1998). “The Greatest Generation”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

  Seth

  Art, Responsibility, People

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• People were always pointing the finger at the fast food industry. And I was a big fan of personal responsibility - you know, no one is forcing you to eat. We're not geese being stuffed with corn.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Responsibility, People, Fans

  "Size Matters". Interview with Laura Nathan, www.motherjones.com. May 21, 2004.

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• The underlying issues, the psychological motives, in all my movies have been the same, he said. Personal responsibility and friendship, the importance of a compassionate life as opposed to a passionate life.

  George Lucas

  Responsibility, Issues, Passionate

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• 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.

  Thomas Merton

  Responsibility, Self Improvement, Analysis

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

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• Good stewardship of the environment is not just a personal responsibility, it is a public value... Our duty is to use the land well, and sometimes not to use it at all. This is our responsibility as citizens, but more than that, it is our calling as stewards of the earth.

  George W. Bush

  Responsibility, Land, Citizens

  "President Creates World's Largest Marine Reserve" by Ned Potter, abcnews.go.com. June 15, 2006.

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• Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is founded in Judeo-Christian values that promotes individualism, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to family, charity.

  Jim DeMint

  Christian, Country, Strong

  "Interview: Sen. Jim DeMint on Tea Party, U.S. Debt, and God's Calling". Interview with Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. July 4, 2011.

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• For the Christian there can be no social or political panaceas, no easy escapes from personal responsibility achieved by collectivising guilt or virtue. The true ends of temporal life lie beyond it, and, though the tyrannical State may diminish virtue, the benevolent State cannot procure it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Christian, Lying, Responsibility

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• War and, apparently, hurricanes are very good for the oil business. But I've got to believe at a certain point, as a nation, we're going to go in a different direction toward an increased sense of personal responsibility, a lowering of each individual's carbon footprint and a real collaborative effort to help sustain our planet.

  Stephen Gaghan

  Real, War, Believe

  "Movies: 'Syriana'". Online discuss, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2005.

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• I fail to understand why gethes (Humans), talk about individuals versus society. They are the same thing. The action of every individual counts, and those individual acts of personal responsibility accumulate to create society. Snowflakes are equally blind to their role in causing avalanches.

  Karen Traviss

  Responsibility, Roles, Avalanches

  Karen Traviss (2009). “Ally”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• The great guardian principle of all conduct in the church of God is personal responsibility to the Lord.

  John Nelson Darby

  Christian, Responsibility, Church

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• I try to tell people to do, or advise them, anyway, is adopt conservative philosophies like hard work, preparation, perseverance, love of God, love of country, personal responsibility. Start to think for yourself and then go out and vote. And I think that once they start to do that, they will know where their vote should go.

  David A. Clarke, Jr

  Country, Perseverance, Philosophy

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.

  Frank Herbert

  Responsibility, Army, People

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.149, Penguin

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• No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Responsibility

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.195, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Each is responsible for his own actions.

  H. L. Hunt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Responsibility

  H. L. Hunt (1965). “Hunt for truth”

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• Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

  J. G. Holland

  Inspirational, Motivational, Responsibility

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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

  Responsibility, Men, Stronger

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1982). “Essays in Religion and Morality”, p.153, Harvard University Press

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• I have no intention of slurring over the differences we have with socialism, nor concealing my belief that we are the National Party of Great Britain, representing not narrow class interest, nor the bigotry of the left wing intellectuals, but all those who support the British tradition of democracy, of personal freedom, of personal responsibility for one's own affairs and those of one's family, with the least possible interference from the State.

  Norman Tebbit

  Party, Responsibility, Class

  Speech to Epping Conservatives, November 17, 1969.

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• We should stay on the right track to the 21st century. Opportunity alone is not enough. I want to build an America in the 21st century in which all Americans take personal responsibility for themselves, their families, their communities and their country.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• I am a Republican because I believe in the constitution, strength in national defense, limited government, individual freedom, and personal responsibility as the concrete foundation for American government. They reinforce the resolve that the United States is the greatest country in the world and we can all be eternally grateful to our founding fathers for the beautiful legacy they left us today.

  Martha Raye

  Beautiful, Country, Father

  "Take It from the Big Mouth: The Life of Martha Raye" by Jane Maddern Pittrone, (p. 220), April 8, 1999.

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