Responsibility Quotes

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  You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Basketball, Peace

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• Understanding who we are, where we came from, and why we are upon the earth places upon each of us a great responsibility both to learn how to learn and to learn to love learning.

  David A. Bednar

  Understanding, Earth, Who We Are

  "Learning to Love Learning". David A. Bednar's priesthood session address at the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. February 2010.

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  If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

  Les Brown

  Music, Dream, Teacher

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• You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 22, 2015

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  The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Growing Up

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)”, p.103, Harper Collins

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• You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say

  Martin Luther

  Responsible, Inspirational Kindness, Reformation

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• When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

  Louis Nizer

  Kids, Men, Accountability

  My Life in Court ch. 1 (1961)

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• Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

  John F. Kennedy

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wise, Wisdom, Future

  George Bernard Shaw (2007). “Back to Methuselah”, p.315, 1st World Publishing

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• Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.

  William McFee

  Sight, Ethics, Ends

  "Casuals of the Sea : The Voyage of a Soul" by William McFee, Book II: The City, Ch. VI, 1916.

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• I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Together as a nation, we have the obligation to put sunshine into the hearts of our little ones. They are our precious possessions. They deserve what happiness life can offer.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.78, Pan Macmillan

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• Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better. Interweave all these communities and you really have an America that is back on its feet again. I really think we are gonna have to reassess what constitutes a 'hero'.

  Studs Terkel

  Hero, Thinking, Sky

  Studs Terkel (1980). “American Dreams: Lost and Found”, p.337, The New Press

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• Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Being Yourself, Personal Accountability, Choices Made

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The time is always right to do what is right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  "This Dallas Boy's MLK Jr. Speech Is Such A Sweet Message For Today's World" by Sarah Friedmann, www.bustle.com. January 2018.

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

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Life, Dog, Garden

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

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• You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Success, Might

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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  The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

  Joan Didion

  Life, Respect, Self Esteem

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Sep 15, 2011

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• Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

  Sigmund Freud

  Leadership, Freedom, Philosophical

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

  Mitt Romney

  Leadership, Excuse, Inspiring Leader

  "Mitt Romney's Florida Victory Speech". www.realclearpolitics.com. January 31, 2012.

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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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• I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection.

  Asger Jorn

  Reflection

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Character, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 02, 2016

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

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Inspirational, Service Culture, Judging

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

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