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W. H. Auden

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

Alexis Carrel

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.

Cyril Connolly

We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life; it is because we tire of our responsibility.

Erik H. Erickson

These same experiences make of the sequence of life cycles a generational cycle, irrevocably binding each generation to those that gave it life and to those for whose life it is responsible. Thus, reconciling lifelong generativity and stagnation involves

Erik H. Erickson

If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way.

Edward Everett Hale

I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Lee Iacocca

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility

C. Everett Koop

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than raising of the next generation.

Darius Ogden Mills

I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my own hands.

Pope John Paul II

??????the domain of the fundamental rights of the human person and respect for his dignity, of the progress of humanity, which cannot be at any price, of justice and equity, as well as the protection of the planet, all domains that concern the future of man a

Elie Wiesel

This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which a

Arnold J. Toynbee

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Michael Korda

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.

Oliver L. North

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are always those who think they know what is your responsibility better than you do.

William Butler Yeats

In dreams begins responsibility.

Les Brown

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

Gerald W. Johnson

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Kahlil Gibran

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.

Abraham Lincoln

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

William Reece Smith, Jr.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

George Bernard Shaw

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Booker T. Washington

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

George Orwell

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Louis

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility every opportunity an obligation every possession a duty.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Stanley Milgram

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

A man who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A man who merely likes exercising authority usually loses it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this Deny your responsibility.

Harlan Ellison

On love I have no respect for anyone who says they've given up, or that they're not looking or that they're tired. That is to abrogate one's responsibility as a human being.

Ambrose Bierce

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

Holly Lisle

If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

You have given me a great responsibility to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.

Elihu Burritt

Forming characters Whose Our own or others Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Erik H. Erickson

If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way.

Joan Didion

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

Sir V Pritchett

There is nothing like a coup de foudre and absorption in family responsibility for maturing the male and pulling his scattered wits together.

Christine Lane

Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe.

Dan Quayle

The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

Fritz Perls

To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.

Richard von Weizscker

There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it or even suspected anything.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility-I welcome it.

Fred Woodworth

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.

Arbie M. Dale

To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.

Barbara Charline Jordan

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse--what I am is beyond my control--for the philosophy of responsibility.

William Gordon

I believe that all of us have the capacity for one adventure inside us, but great adventure is facing responsibility day after day.

Dan Quayle

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.

C. Everett Koop

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than raising of the next generation.

Cyril Connolly

We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life; it is because we tire of our responsibility.

Alan Stewart Paton

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

Max De Pree

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

Eugenio Montale

The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.

Thomas Szasz

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Frank H. Crane

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fibre.

Spider-Man

Uncle Ben With great power, comes great responsibility.

Richard Feynman

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Lee Iacocca

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility

Howard Schultz

I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.

Man has responsibility, not power.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

You can delegate authority, but not responsibility.

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

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty.

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong.

It is the responsibility of the sender to make sure the receiver understands the message.

Baby: an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.

The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.

The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we th

Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and p

I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind.

There will always be dissident voices heard in the land expresing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side, and seeking influence without responsibility.

Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.

To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.

"The price of greatness is responsibility" - Winston Churchill

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever

"Without personal responsibility there cannot be freedom."-N. Gingrich

There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without dece

Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership.

"Give us more responsibility" - B. Clinton

With great power comes great responsibility.

"I take full responsibility" means "Don't blame me." J. Reno

"Why worry?" "Because it's your responsibility!" - Simba/Nala

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