Personal Responsibility Quotes - Page 8

• Everyone should educate themselves in more wise and responsible consumption; promote personal responsibility, along with the social dimension of rural activities, which are based on perennial values, such as hospitality, solidarity, and the sharing of the toil of labor.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Wise, Responsibility, Toil

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• We need to bring personal responsibility back to the family!

  John G. Miller

  Responsibility, Needs

  Source: www.jmlalonde.com

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• Solve the problem yourself or accept a fate you may not like... from this perspective, the ethic of personal responsibility gains appeal.

  Noel Tichy

  Responsibility, Fate, Perspective

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• A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is must reading for anyone with an interest in the enduring effects of the Vietnam War, the subject of crime in our streets, and the issue of personal responsibility in a harsh, chaotic world.

  Le Ly Hayslip

  War, Reading, Book

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• Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.

  Billy Corgan

  Attitude, Responsibility, Fighting

  Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. May 30, 2005.

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• I'll clue you in on a secret: death is not the worst thing that could happen to you. I know we think that; we are the first society ever to think that. It's not worse than dishonor; it's not worse than losing your freedom; its not worse than losing a sense of personal responsibility.

  Bill Maher

  Responsibility, Thinking, Secret

  "Bill Maher: Be More Cynical". Comedy, 2000.

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• We know that every father has a personal responsibility to do right by their kids - to encourage them to turn off the video games and pick up a book; to teach them the difference between right and wrong; to show them through our own example the value in treating one another as we wish to be treated. And most of all, to play an active and engaged role in their lives.

  Barack Obama

  Father, Book, Kids

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• Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal responsibilities, federated into larger units in such a way that the temptation to abuse great power should not arise.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Responsibility, Power, Men

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• Many people believe that dealing with overweight and obesity is a personal responsibility. To some degree they are right, but it is also a community responsibility. When there are no safe, accessible places for children to play or adults to walk, jog, or ride a bike, that is a community responsibility.

  David Satcher

  Children, Believe, Responsibility

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• It is the church's responsibility, the government's responsibility, and the personal responsibility of every one of us to love.

  Shane Claiborne

  Responsibility, Government, Church

  "Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.

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• The evolution of a bourgeoisie is a healthy phenomenon when it grows and prospers thanks to bourgeois values: hard work, honesty, personal responsibility.

  Anne Applebaum

  Honesty, Hard Work, Responsibility

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• I believe in the acceptance of personal responsibility, freedom of choice, and the British Empire, which took freedom and the rule of law to countries which would never have known it otherwise.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Believe, Responsibility

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• I am the owner of my choices. I am the source for the perspectives I choose to hold regardless of how aware I am of why or how I come to possess that particular perspective. It takes courage to look into the mirror of our souls, absent excuses. I will look into that mirror little bits at a time. SEE and ACT. SEE what I can bear to see and ACT upon what I am able. This is the heart of a gentle invitation to personal responsibility.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Heart, Responsibility, Mirrors

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• You are what you worship. There's something so true about that, with how we're operating as a culture in America. People believing in a wide variety of things, and rarely believing in the same thing. It gives us an opportunity to have a conversation: What is faith? What is belief? What is your personal responsibility for how you see yourself in the grander scheme of the universe, and life, and your contribution to it?

  Bryan Fuller

  Believe, Responsibility, Opportunity

  Source: www.gq.com

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• My view is, in between environmental determinism and personal responsibility, we say, "where there's a will there's a way." It's not true. You really need both and they're somewhat independent. We must both cultivate will and pave the way. If you inspire an impassioned people so that they have the will but there's no way, all around them are walls with no doors or windows. It's terribly frustrating. On the other hand, if you put a very nice way at their feet and they have no will to follow it, that doesn't produce anything very good either. Will is not way. You need both.

  David Katz

  Wall, Nice, Independent

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development of personal responsibility, is the reason why we object to an unsupervised, unchecked monopolistic control in private hands. We urge control and supervision by the nation as an antidote to the movement for state socialism. Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wisdom, Believe, Responsibility

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.187, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Morale is not a single instinct. It has many ingredients. A sense of personal responsibility, the natural courage of an individual, the amount of his acquired self-discipline -- and above all his interest in others -- these together make up the spirit of morale.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Responsibility, Self, Discipline

  Phyllis Bottome (1943). “Survival”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• The greater the number of prescriptions, the more people's sense of personal responsibility dwindles.

  Hans Monderman

  Responsibility, Numbers, People

  "European Cities Do Away with Traffic Signs" by Matthias Schulz, www.spiegel.de. November 16, 2006.

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• Even the acceptance of personal responsibility may not overcome the temptation to believe that now is not the time to repent. 'Now' can seem so difficult, and 'later' appear so much easier. The truth is that today is always a better day to repent than any tomorrow.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Believe, Responsibility, Acceptance

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• As I see it, we are all connected and share a stake in our collective future. We are all part of a greater picture. I greatly encourage businesswomen everywhere in the world to take personal responsibility, stay connected to their own intuition and unique potential, work hard, deal with reality, but don't give up.

  Shari Arison

  Giving Up, Hard Work, Don't Give Up

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• The emphasis on personal responsibility is something we've had in black America from the get-go. Every major leader and intellectual worth her salt has advocated for black folk to better ourselves and push ourselves to the limits of our abilities and gifts. At the same time, we've got to focus on creating a society that recognizes our worth, regardless of race and other factors.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Responsibility, Focus, Leader

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.

  Anthony Burgess

  Responsibility, Guilt, Way

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• Enron and 9/11 marked the end of an era of individual freedom and the beginning of personal responsibility.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Responsibility, Eras, Individual

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• What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Responsibility, People, Black

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• All persons who bear the blessed title of parent have the personal responsibility to see that their children are growing up fully appreciative of the rights of God and their fellowmen.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Children, Growing Up, Blessed

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