Responsibility Quotes - Page 3

• It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

  Peter Ustinov

  Love, Motivational, Family

  "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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• You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

  Denis Waitley

  Wise, Wisdom, Achievement

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• Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.

  James A. Garfield

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Character

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.486, Best Books on

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• Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture.
  Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Culture, Illusion

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• Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

  Plato

  Wise, Wisdom, Witty

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• One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned, there is much that I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Philosophy, Believe

  "You Learn by Living" by Eleanor Roosevelt, (Foreword), 1960.

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• Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility in the final analysis. The one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.

  Michael Korda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Success!". Book by Michael Korda, 1977.

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• It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

  Noam Chomsky

  Leadership, Truth, Lying

  Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.60, Pantheon

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• Definition of responsibility: a commitment of the head, heart, and hands to fix the problem and never again affix blame.

  John G. Miller

  Heart, Commitment, Hands

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• Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Childhood, Wake Up, Quitting

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• Whatever happens, take responsibility.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

  Tony Robbins (2010). “Unlimited Power a Black Choice”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on Earth to see it isn't ruined.

  Allen Johnson

  Earth, Privilege, Given

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• I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

  Barack Obama

  Fighting, Mind Blowing, Religion

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Government

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Bully!”, p.442, Simon and Schuster

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• The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

  Oscar Arias

  Peace, Freedom, Bears

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• Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.

  Vaclav Havel

  Peace, Names, Roots

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• The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you.

  Robert Breault

  Taken, Thinking, Care

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• Take responsiblilty for yourself because no one's going to take responsibility for you.

  Tyra Banks

  Taking Responsibility

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• A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

  Ronald Knox

  Funny, Mom, Baby

  Definition of a baby (attributed)

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• The first world is going to have to account for this sort of horrible poverty in our midst. We have to, first of all, become aware of it. We have to take responsibility for it. And then we have to do something about it for our own freedom, for our own salvation, for our own humanity.

  Martin Sheen

  Humanity, World, Poverty

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• The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Firsts, Obvious, Duty

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• Responsiblity is the great developer of men.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Men, Developers

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• Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Growing Up, Freedom, 4th Of July

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.152, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Peak Performance, Performances

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• Frederick Herzberg, asserts that the powerful motivator in our lives isn't money; it's the opportunity to learn, grow in responsibilities, contribute to others, and be recognized for achievements.

  Frederick Herzberg

  Powerful, Opportunity, Achievement

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