Individual Responsibility Quotes

• 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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• It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Environmental

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• Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

  Booker T. Washington

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  "Up from Slavery".

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• Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually.

  Dalai Lama

  Country, Jobs, Lying

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1989.

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• In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

  Norman Cousins

  Freedom, Responsibility, Democracies Have

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• We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

  Ronald Reagan's Speech at the Republican National Convention, Platform Committee Meeting, Miami, Florida, July 31, 1968.

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• Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Service Culture

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

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• In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

  Thomas Merton

  Responsibility, Self Improvement, Analysis

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

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• An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't help but take responsibility.

  Jan Carlzon

  Responsibility, Information, Helping

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  Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Business

  Ambrose Bierce (2015). “The Eyes of the Panther (Cryptofiction Classics - Weird Tales of Strange Creatures)”, p.20, Read Books Ltd

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• Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility.

  Dennis Weaver

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Consciousness

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• Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Motivational, Strength, Being Yourself

  "You Learn by Living".

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• One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Believe, Responsibility

  "Housewives, Sure, but What Makes Them Real?" by Neil Genzlinger, www.nytimes.com. May 15, 2011.

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• We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.

  Paul Ryan

  Believe, Responsibility, Government

  "Paul Ryan State Of The Union Response: Speech Addresses Spending, Health Care & More". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2011.

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• You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you ask them to devote 20 minutes a year to having their car emissions inspected, they will vote 80 to 20 against it. We are a long way in this country from taking individual responsibility for the environmental problem.

  William Ruckelshaus

  Country, Responsibility, Air

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• You can't talk about the environment, you can't talk about political correctness, affirmative action and all the other innumerable things that freedom is about, unless you have a free society based upon the integrity of the individual. If you have a responsible society, these other issues will not come up in a responsible society, and that is what freedom is all about.

  Russell Means

  Freedom, Integrity, Responsibility

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• We live in such a corporate world where everyone is passing the buck, it seems to me. Therefore I like stories where the individual takes responsibility for BEING the individual, and not just for himself, but for his comrades, his society and ultimately for his country. Ultimately, we can all learn a lesson from that and not be browbeaten by the corporate world which is taking over.

  Liam Neeson

  Country, Responsibility, Society

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• The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

  Daniel Webster

  God, Responsibility, Mind

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• I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.

  Neil Peart

  Believe, Responsibility, Rights

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• When you take out individual initiative, individual responsibility, and the hope that every individual is born with, to better their lives, to climb the economic ladder, to pursue happiness, that is, in fact, a neoslavery.

  Niger Innis

  Responsibility, Ladders, Facts

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• Success, they taught me, is built on the foundation of courage, hard-work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears.

  Susana Martinez

  Believe, Responsibility, Hard Work

  "Susana Martinez RNC speech". www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Responsibility, Government, Demand

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• One exemplary act may affect one life, or even millions of lives. All those who set standards for themselves, who strengthen the bonds of community, who do their work creditably and accept individual responsibility, are building the common future.

  John W. Gardner

  Character, Responsibility, Community

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• We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility

  Thomas Szasz

  Meaningful, Responsibility, Guilt

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.79, Transaction Publishers

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• In today's highly interdependent world, individuals and nations can no longer resolve many of their problems by themselves. We need one another. It is our collective and individual responsibility to protect and nurture the global family, to support its weaker members, and to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.

  Dalai Lama

  Responsibility, Support, Needs

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