Responsible Quotes - Page 3

• Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.

  Paul Ryan

  Responsibility, Giving, Choices

  "Fussbudget" by Ryan Lizza, www.newyorker.com. August 6, 2012.

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• in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Responsibility, Men, Eternity

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.243, Penguin

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• A man is responsible for his ignorance.

  Milan Kundera

  Ignorance, Men, Willful Ignorance

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• Healing comes from taking responsibility: to realize that it is you - and no one else - that creates your thoughts, your feelings, and your actions.

  Peter Shepherd

  Happiness, Success, Responsibility

  Peter Shepherd (2010). “Daring to Be Yourself”, p.124, DoctorZed Publishing

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• There is absolutely nothing wrong with the responsible use of marijuana by adults and it should be of no interest or concern to the government. They have no business knowing whether we smoke or why we smoke.

  Keith Stroup

  Marijuana, Government, Knowing

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• People who do not take charge of their lives are lathi-charged by time.

  Kiran Bedi

  Life, Time, Responsibility

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• Even if only a few individuals try to create mental peace and happiness within themselves, and act responsibly and kind-heartedly towards others, they will have a positive influence in their community.

  Dalai Lama

  Positive, Happiness, Peace

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• To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Leadership, Freedom, Business

  "Poems of Problems" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, "Protest", (pp. 154 - 155), 1914.

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• A successful person realizes his personal responsibility for self-motivation. He starts with himself because he possesses the key to his own ignition switch.

  Kemmons Wilson

  Motivational, Success, Basketball

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• Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

  Khalil Gibran

  Best Friend, Friendship, Sweet

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Eugene H. Peterson (2006). “God's Message for Each Day: Wisdom from the Word of God”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Religious, Responsibility

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.60, Beacon Press

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• If not you, who? If not now, when?

  Hillel the Elder

  Motivational, New Beginnings, Responsibility

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

  Winston Churchill

  Inspiring, Being Responsible, Irresponsible

  1950 Radio broadcast, 26 Aug.

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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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• You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Life, Dog, Responsibility

  "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (Ch. XXI), 1943.

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• we're responsible for our own lives.

  Stephen Covey

  Good Decision

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• The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.

  Hillary Clinton

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Encouragement

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  You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Happiness, Moving On, Letting Go

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• I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

  Dennis Potter

  Believe, I Believe

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• So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer intelligences may read in the feeble shining of this earth of ours, every thought and act, every vice and virtue, of every responsible creature on it.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Stars, Lying

  Charles Dickens (2015). “A Tale of Two Cities: World Classics”, p.186, World Classic

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• We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented.

  James Martineau

  Inspirational, Evil, May

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• Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions.

  Patricia Briggs

  Evil People, Action, Blame

  Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.147, Penguin

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• Elites are inevitable in politics. That is how politics is going to work. The question is, are your elites responsible, public-spirited? Do they think about the interests of others, not just themselves? And the story of Western politics since the beginning of the century is that as elites become more separated, more selfish, as they leave behind their populations and don't think about them, they become discredited. And the people look for alternatives. But the alternative is worse. Those rules of the game protect us all. And they are more precious than almost any political outcome.

  David Frum

  Selfish, Thinking, People

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• We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them.

  Julian Barnes

  Safe, Way, Mature

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.93, Random House

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