Responsible Person Quotes

• You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.

  Marianne Williamson

  Believe, Responsibility, Exercise

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  If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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

  Martin Luther

  Responsibility, Responsible, Inspirational Kindness

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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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• A responsible person is one who responds.

  Corita Kent

  Responsible, Persons

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• Responsible persons are mature people who have taken charge of themselves and their conduct, who own their actions and own up to them--who answer for them.

  William Bennett

  Taken, Responsibility, People

  William J. Bennett (1993). “The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories”, Simon and Schuster

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• You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.

  Ann Patchett

  Responsible, Aspect, Persons

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have the lived experience of a Black man in America, also raising Black kids, but I also have the lived experience of being a responsible person who is responsible for the resourcing and the outfitting of a law enforcement agency.

  Andrew Gillum

  Kids, Men, America

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.

  Albert Camus

  Guilt, May, Shame

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.67, Vintage

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• The responsible person seeks to make his whole life a response to the question and call of God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Responsible, Whole Life, Response

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• I think putting the United States down across the world is not something that a responsible person does.

  John Lewis

  Thinking, United States, Doe

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all these, when in faith and sole allegiance to God he is called to obedient and responsible action: the responsible person, whose life will be nothing but an answer to God's question and call.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Sacrifice, Answers, Principles

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1966). “I Loved this People: Testimonies of Responsibility”, London : S.P.C.K.

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• I'm the ultimately responsible person in this organization. Other people can pass the buck to me, but I can't pass the buck to anyone else.

  Harry S. Truman

  Organization, People, History

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• I can't imagine any reasonably responsible person arguing against the abortion of mongols ... If we could tell what foetuses are going to be affected with cancer in their 40s and 50s, I would be for aborting them now.

  Cecil Jacobson

  Cancer, Abortion, Would Be

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• ... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another, economic, social, cultural. Economic determinism is an objectionable creed where men and women espouse it in its communist or capitalist form because it treats human beings as economic units and not as responsible persons.

  Davis McCaughey

  Leadership, Business, Men

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• What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility.

  Albert Einstein

  Humility, Design, Looks

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• There must be no majority decisions, but only responsible persons, and the word 'council' must be restored to its original meaning. Surely every man will have advisers by his side, but the decision will be made by one man.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Men, Decision

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• I'm trying to be a loving and caring mother, a loving and caring wife-to-be, a loving and caring daughter, a loving and caring friend, a responsible person. And every day is another opportunity for me to be successful at that.

  Lauryn Hill

  Daughter, Mother, Successful

  "Queen of Hip Hop". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

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• I would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world. But the instability of the poetry, the emotional jaggedness, is also me.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Writing, Emotional, World

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• To be a responsible person is to find one's role in the building of shalom, the re-webbing of God, humanity and all creation in justice, harmony, fulfillment and delight. To be a responsible person is to find one's own role and then, funded by the grace of God, to fill this role and to delight in it.

  Cornelius Plantinga

  Justice, Grace, Humanity

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• Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours.

  William Vickrey

  Jobs, Employment, Hours

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