Being Responsible Quotes

• You can't pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It's not something that disappears when you're tired.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Tired, Responsible

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.34, Crown Business

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• Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Positive, Powerful

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Feb 06, 2015

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• Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Men, Answers

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.110, Beacon Press

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• Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspiring, Responsible, Irresponsible

  1950 Radio broadcast, 26 Aug.

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• The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Being Yourself, Responsibility, Personal Accountability

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

  Colin Powell

  Motivational, Leadership, Mean

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.85, Ballantine Books

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• Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Freedom, Responsibility, Responsible

  "Twilight of the Idols". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sect. 38, 1888.

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• Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.

  Courtney Thorne Smith

  Healthy, Matter, Responsible

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.

  Courtney Thorne Smith

  Health, Family Love, Matter

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Young people, we have this thing about us, this invincibility, because we're young and we're growing up and we want to have fun, and we want to be crazy, and nothing's wrong with that unless you're not being responsible.

  Rihanna

  Growing Up, Fun, Crazy

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• Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.

  Sam Shepard

  Scare Tactics, Democracy, May

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• Being responsible for another human life terrifies me, because I kill plants.

  Lauren Conrad

  Plant, Responsible, Human Life

  "Lauren Conrad Talks to Glamour: 'My Friends Are Everything'". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. April 1, 2010.

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• I really don't like going out. I don't like restaurants because I don't like the idea of someone, a waitress, being responsible for my evening. I like seconds, and more, and lots of conversation, and I've always hated the idea that in a restaurant an evening just ends. I find that incredibly depressing.

  Amy Sedaris

  Depressing, Ideas, Going Out

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• Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God.

  John Tyler

  Religious, Men, Presidential

  Funeral oration for Thomas Jefferson, July 11, 1826.

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• To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Responsibility, Pride, Men

  "'Terre des Hommes' ('Wind, Sand and Stars')". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, translated by Lewis Galantière. Chapter II: "The Men", 1939.

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• I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.

  Adriana Lima

  Inspirational, Teenager, Independent

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• When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible.

  Dale Earnhardt

  Mean, Hunting, Racing

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• Give something back by becoming more

  Tony Robbins

  Positive Thinking, Responsibility, Giving

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Men, Responsible, Be A Man

  "Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Lewis Galantière, (Ch. II), 1939.

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• Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Challenges, Meaning Of Life

  Viktor E. Frankl (1985). “Man's Search For Meaning”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• Everybody ought to be given a chance to do whatever they want, but be responsible for their own actions.

  Monty Roberts

  Want, Chance, Action

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• The Marines fought almost solely on esprit de corps, I was certain. It was inconceivable to most Marines that they should let another Marine down, or that they could be responsible for dimming the bright reputation of their Corps. The Marines simply assumed that they were the world's best fighting men.

  Robert Sherrod

  Military, Fighting, Marine

  Robert Sherrod (2013). “Tarawa: The Incredible Story of One of World War II's Bloodiest Battles”, p.35, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• You may not be responsible for getting knocked down. But you're certainly responsible for getting back up.

  Wally Amos

  Motivational, Getting Back Up, May

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• The process is really what you have to do day in and day out to be successful, we try to define the standard that we want everybody to sort of work toward, adhere to, and do it on a consistent basis. And the things that I talked about before, being responsible for your own self-determination, having a positive attitude, having great work ethic, having discipline to be able to execute on a consistent basis, whatever it is you're trying to do, those are the things that we try to focus on, and we don't try to focus as much on the outcomes as we do on being all that you can be.

  Nick Saban

  Determination, Attitude, Successful

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• Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way.

  George H. W. Bush

  Perspective, Environmental, Earth

  George H.W. Bush (2009). “Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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