Personal Responsibility Quotes - Page 2

• Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Full Text of Governor Ikpeazu’s Inaugural Speech". dailypost.ng. May 30, 2015.

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• We must remind Americans that the promise of opportunity remains unbroken - that every person in this great nation can succeed through hard work, courage and personal responsibility.

  Brian Sandoval

  Responsibility, Hard Work, Opportunity

  "Brian Sandoval RNC speech". www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.

  Oswald Chambers

  Want, Way, Responsible

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.60, Discovery House

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• This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Responsibility, Waiting, Forever

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.

  Thomas Sowell

  Responsibility, Behavior, Great Escape

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.245, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Embrace the hell out of personal responsibility.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Responsibility, Hell, Embrace

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• Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Learning, Responsibility, Exercise

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• We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.

  Mitt Romney

  Believe, Responsibility, Successful

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• You have to believe that you are the one who creates your success, that you are the one who creates your mediocrity, and that you are the one creating your struggle around money and success.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Success, Trust

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Mar 26, 2013

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• Surprisingly, it's forgiveness, not guilt, that increases accountability. Researchers have found that taking a self-compassionate point of view on a personal failure makes people more likely to take personal responsibility for the failure than when they take a self-critical point of view. They also are more willing to receive feedback and advice from others, and more likely to learn from the experience.

  David D. Burns

  Responsibility, Self, Views

  Source: time.com

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• The lessons we have begun to learn make me hopeful, that human beings will become friendlier, more harmonious, less harmful. Compassion and the seeds of peace will be able to flourish. At the same time, every individual is responsible to help guide our global family in the right direction. Good wishes alone are not enough; we have to take responsibility. Large human movements spring from individual human initiatives

  Dalai Lama

  Spring, Responsibility, Compassion

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• My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way

  Ali Shariati

  Family, Father, Responsibility

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• The most valuable "currency" of any organization is the initiative and creativity of its members. Every leader has the solemn moral responsibility to develop these to the maximum in all his people. This is the leader's highest priority.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Leadership, Creativity, Responsibility

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• I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Inspirational, Freedom, Responsibility

  "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert A. Heinlein, (Ch. 6), 1966.

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• If there's a thing I've learned in my life it's to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don't

  Cassandra Clare

  Love, Responsibility, Caring

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• Choose the mountain you want to climb: don't pay attention to what other people say, such as "that one's more beautiful" or "this one's easier". You'll be spending lots of energy and enthusiasm to reach your objective, so you're the only one responsible and you should be sure of what you're doing.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Beautiful, Inspiration

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• Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Freedom, Fear

  Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Liberty and Equality"

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• My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Country

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 18, 2014

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• Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have shown to them.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Responsibility, Tomorrow

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 29, 2010

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• We all have a responsibility, and since I've been so wonderfully blessed, I really want to share and to make life at least a little better. So every chance I get to share the gospel or uplift people, I will take full advantage of that opportunity.

  Gladys Knight

  Uplifting, Blessed, Responsibility

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• Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

  Iris Murdoch

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Sea

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Bell”, p.139, Penguin

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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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• We are all musicians in a great human orchestra, and it is now time to play the Save the World Symphony. You are not required to play a solo, but you are required to know what instrument you hold and play it as well as you can. You are required to find your place in the score. What we love we must protect. That’s what love means. From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Love, Time, Responsibility

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• Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them. You will want to change them when you realize that each thought creates according to its own nature. Remember that the law works at all times and that you are always demonstrating according to the kind of thoughts you habitually entertain. Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Inspirational, Change, Happiness

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