Personal Responsibility Quotes - Page 7

• Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility in the final analysis. The one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.

  Michael Korda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Success!". Book by Michael Korda, 1977.

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• Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don't have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.

  Bill Joy

  Responsibility, Technology, Today

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• A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Achievement

  Louis Kronenberger (1964). “The cart and the horse”

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• Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

  Colin Powell

  Motivational, Leadership, Mean

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.85, Ballantine Books

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• I'll tell you who doesn't have any personal responsibility. Companies like General Electric and others who pay absolutely no income tax.

  Michael Moore

  Responsibility, Income, Pay

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• The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.

  Alan Moore

  Responsibility, Thinking, Roots

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 24, 2001.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.

  Gary Bauer

  Strong, Jobs, Responsibility

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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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• 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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• It is not enough to behave reverently; we must feel in our hearts reverence for our Heavenly Father and our Lord, Jesus Christ. Reverence flows from our admiration and respect for Deity. It is something we feel inside our hearts no matter what is going on around us. It is also a personal responsibility. We cannot blame others for disturbing our reverent attitudes.

  L. Tom Perry

  Jesus, Attitude, Father

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• What you do comes from what you think.

  Marianne Williamson

  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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• 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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• A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.

  Benjamin Carson

  Responsibility, Self, People

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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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• 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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