Responsibility To Others Quotes

• Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

  Helen Keller

  Women, Responsibility, People

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.111, Matthew Gordon

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• I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.

  Edward Everett

  Life, Responsibility, Oneness

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• The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

  Oscar Arias

  Peace, Freedom, Responsibility

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• If people concentrated on their responsibilities, others would have their rights.

  Stuart Briscoe

  Responsibility, Rights, People

  Stuart Briscoe (2010). “What Works When Life Doesn't”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• Our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't escape each other. Therefore, we have to spend our lives building a global community of shared responsibilities, shared values, shared benefits.

  William J. Clinton

  Responsibility, Community, Benefits

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• Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well.

  Maya Angelou

  Lying, Responsibility, Choices

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.73, Random House

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• The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

  Albert Ellis

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, it will not change you.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Matter

  "Words With Wayne Dyer". Interview with Karl Saliter, www.elephantjournal.com. May 4, 2014.

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• I am only one,
  But still I am one.

  Helen Keller

  Responsibility, Volunteer, Solitude

  "The Book of Good Cheer : A Little Bundle of Cheery Thoughts‎" by Edwin Osgood Grover, (p. 28), 1909.

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• We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Responsibility, Rights, Justice

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• Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.

  Vandana Shiva

  Responsibility, Rights, Leaving

  Source: www.nogeoingegneria.com

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• Success is all about being able to extend love to people. The people I consider successful are so because of how they handle their responsibilities to other people, how they approach the future, people who have a full sense of the value of their life and what they want to do with it.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Responsibility, Successful, People

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• And I didn't know what that meant for a long time. It was only when I began to travel and look and live beyond my home that I understand my responsibility to others.

  Angelina Jolie

  Home, Responsibility, Long

  "Angelina Jolie's emotional acceptance speech at Governors Awards" By Lisa Respers France, www.cnn.com. November 18, 2013.

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• Teenagers are extremely funny, and extremely clever and intellectually curious. But they're also willing to ask questions about the meaning of life without disguising them around irony, and ask questions about what are our responsibilities to other people without having to couch it in irony.

  John Green

  Clever, Teenager, Responsibility

  "Q&A: John Green & Nat Wolff on ‘Paper Towns’ Themes, Inside Jokes, Nicknames". Interview with Seth Kelley, variety.com. July 19, 2015.

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• Your sense of responsibility to others can never be excessive.

  Dean Koontz

  Responsibility, Sense Of Responsibility

  Dean Koontz (2004). “Midnight”, p.304, Penguin

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• Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.

  Delphine de Girardin

  Jealous, Responsibility, Men

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• Prayer provides an opportunity to remind oneself of how one should be living, our responsibilities to others, our own failings, and our relative good fortune, should we have it. This is, I think, a pretty worthwhile practice and it is not something you can only do if you believe you are talking to an unseen creator.

  Julian Baggini

  Prayer, Believe, Responsibility

  "You don't have to be religious to pray ... but it helps" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2012.

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• Nobody can do everything well, so learn how to delegate responsibility to other winners and then hold them accountable for their decisions.

  George Foreman

  Responsibility, Decision, Winner

  George Foreman (2010). “Knockout Entrepreneur: My Ten-Count Strategy for Winning at Business”, p.39, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Although we have responsibilities to others, we are primarily accountable to God. It is before him that we stand, and to him that one day we must give an account. We should not therefore rate human opinion too highly.

  John Stott

  Responsibility, Giving, One Day

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• One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.)

  Marshall McLuhan

  Responsibility, Mold, Welfare

  Marshall McLuhan (1969). “The interior landscape: the literary criticism of Marshall McLuhan, 1943-1962”

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• For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Growing Up, Responsibility, Views

  "J. Michael Straczynski’s Superman: Outsider with a vulnerable heart". Interview with Jevon Phillips, herocomplex.latimes.com. November 5, 2012.

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