Responsible Quotes

• We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

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  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Love, Inspirational, Death

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• No, no," Mr. Darling always said, "I am responsible for it all. I, George Darling, did it. MEA CULPA, MEA CULPA." He had had a classical education.

  James M. Barrie

  Said, Darling, Classical Education

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.21, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

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  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Life, Believe, Choices

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• Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

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• I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Girl

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• The more God gives you, the more responsible he expects you to be.

  Rick Warren

  Giving

  Rick Warren (2004). “What on Earth Am I Here For?”

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• I think to trust in the sovereignty of God does not excuse my personal responsibility. Just the opposite - it equips me to be personally responsible.

  Max Lucado

  Responsibility, Thinking, Opposites

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• It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

  Moliere

  Freedom, Kindness, Helping Others

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• You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Responsibility, Childhood, Fixing

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• The price of greatness is responsibility.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

  Winston Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.292, A&C Black

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

  Martin Luther

  Responsibility, Inspirational Kindness, Reformation

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• Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Valentines Day, Forgiveness

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Freedom, Responsibility, Being Responsible

  "Twilight of the Idols". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sect. 38, 1888.

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• Whatever happens, take responsibility.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

  Tony Robbins (2010). “Unlimited Power a Black Choice”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Freedom, Responsibility

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.167, Open Road Media

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• We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.

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  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Children, Greatest Fear, Role Models

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• I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Attitude, Character, Responsibility

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• In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

  Thomas Merton

  Responsibility, Self Improvement, Analysis

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

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• Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

  Plato

  Wise, Wisdom, Witty

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• Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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

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• You alone are responsible

  Mike Livingston

  Rowing

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• Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

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• We are each responsible for our own life-no other person can be.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Persons

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Basketball, Peace

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