Personal Responsibility Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• What does it mean to be a conservative? I don't even know anymore. I know what it means to me. It means to me, personal responsibility. That if I've done something wrong, its up to me to pay the price. It's up to me to make it right.

  Glenn Beck

  Mean, Responsibility, Pay The Price

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• And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility.

  John Boehner

  Responsibility, Government, America

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• The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

  Mitt Romney

  Responsibility, Dignity Of Work, Self

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• All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, it will not change you.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Matter

  "Words With Wayne Dyer". Interview with Karl Saliter, www.elephantjournal.com. May 4, 2014.

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• Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take care of themselves.

  Howard Nemerov

  Responsibility, Government, Promise

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• You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.

  Marianne Williamson

  Believe, Responsibility, Exercise

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• I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit.

  Mark Levin

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Liberty

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• Personal responsibility extends to the purchase of health insurance. Citizens should not be able to cheat their neighbors by not buying insurance, particularly when they can afford it, and expect others to pay for their care when they need it.

  Newt Gingrich

  Responsibility, Needs, Citizens

  "Newt Gingrich Calls the Show". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. May 19, 2011.

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• I'm a big believer in personal responsibility. My life wasn't always peaches and roses. Where I am today is through a belief in hard work and never saying no.

  Steve Wilkos

  Hard Work, Responsibility, Rose

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• I am convinced that any attempt to restore harmony in the world can only rest on the renewal of personal responsibility.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Responsibility, World, Harmony

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• We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their dark, unconsoling mysteries. The feminist of the fin de si?cle will be bawdy, streetwise, and on-the-spot confrontational, in the prankish Sixties way.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Sex, Stress

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• It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.

  Sophocles

  Life, Pain, Adversity

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• I think of veganism humbly and holistically. It's about taking personal responsibility in a world so full of needless suffering. It's challenging one's self to open one's eyes and question society's assumptions and habits. It's about critical thinking and compassion and how we would like to see the world evolve.

  Michael Greger

  Eye, Responsibility, Thinking

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• Any real accomplishment in the world reflects the efforts of a lot of people. . . . For an individual to claim personal responsibility was the height of arrogance.

  John J. Gilligan

  Real, Humility, Responsibility

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• The vision of the anointed is one in which ills as poverty, irresponsible sex, and crime derive primarily from 'society,' rather than from individual choices and behavior. To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by 'society'.

  Thomas Sowell

  Sex, Believe, Responsibility

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, Basic Books

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• Victimization status is the modern promised land of absolution from personal responsibility.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Responsibility, Land, Modern

  Dr. Laura Schlessinger (2009). “How Could You Do That?!: Abdication of Character, Courage, Consci”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• There is nothing wrong with underlining personal agency, but there is something unfair about using personal responsibility as a basis for assigning blame while simultaneously denying those who are being blamed the opportunity to exert agency in their lives

  Paul Farmer

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Agency

  Paul Farmer (2001). “Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues”, p.84, Univ of California Press

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• In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.

  Jonathan Krohn

  Believe, Book, Responsibility

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• When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.

  George O'Neil

  Responsibility, Self Control, Needs

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• Using awareness, personal responsibility and inner work to review our unskillful or frightened reactions, we become more adept at turning habitual reactions to balanced responses. These moments are very exciting and gratifying.

  John Earle

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Moments

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• Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Creativity, Responsibility

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• But in Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility.

  Melissa Bean

  Responsibility, Accountability, Phrases

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• Geoff Nelder's ARIA has the right stuff. He makes us ask the most important question in science fiction-the one about the true limits of personal responsibility.

  Brad Linaweaver

  Responsibility, Important, Fiction

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• What you do comes from what you think.

  Marianne Williamson

  Responsibility, Thinking

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