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Responsibility Quotes
"And then when they picked me as premiere, I don't think I feel, you know, different. For me, the position mean responsibility, but that's all."
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"It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow."
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"Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy."
30
"Never blame anyone for your life. You are responsible for you."
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"By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself."
14
"Death is lighter than a feather. Duty, heavier than a mountain."
13
"As a believer, you need to take responsibility of the Kingdom of God on earth."
8
"I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me."
8
"It is in your hands to make life miserable or happy. No religion, spiritual leaders or knowledge will ever make you fully satisfied."
7
"The reason your life stays the same is because you think everyone else is the problem. Stop pointing fingers and placing blame on others. Your life can only change to the degree that you accept responsibility for it."
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"For know, dear ones, that every one of us is undoubtedly responsible for all men- and everything on earth, not merely through the general sinfulness of creation, but each one personally for all mankind and every individual man. This knowledge is the crown of life for the monk and for every man. For monks are not a special sort of men, but only what all men ought to be. Only through that knowledge, our heart grows soft with infinite, universal, inexhaustible love. Then every one of you will have the power to win over the whole world by love and to wash away the sins of the world with your tears."
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"If we do not make tough decisions now, future Americans will have to make even tougher ones."
6
"It's a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment."
6
"Idle hands are the devils greatest tools. But it'll be good to notice that the tools sharpened by idle heads. You are idle because that's the job your mind gave you!"
6
"We can either own our circumstances and be creative in them, or we can throw up our hands and say, I cannot be held accountable because the conditions are not ideal."
6
"If people are not in the process of production, they don't deserve anything."
6
"What must occur is a greater recognition by investors of their individual responsibility."
6
"As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act."
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"The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort."
6
"We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges."
5
"Shareholder activism is not a privilege - it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own part of that company and we are partly responsible for how that company progresses. If we believe there is something going wrong with the company, then we, as shareholders, must become active and vocal."
5
"If we act in clean way, we shall clear the city of any dirt."
5
"It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it."
5
"And, if there was any responsibility in refusing to obey, he was willing to accept it."
5
"I played with a lot of great players before. They're all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform and to play well."
5
"I feel I'll take on the responsibility of showing the world a whole different kind of Latin woman."
5
"My job had been to get the package from point A to point B and what happened after that did not need to concern me. I was just the mule."
5
"We must all work in harmony with each other to stand up for what is right, to speak up for what is fair, and to always voice any corrections so that the ignorant become informed and justice is never ignored. Every time a person allows an act of ignorance to happen, they delay our progress for true change. Every person, molecule and thing matters. We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong and fail to remind them of what is right."
5
"Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous."
4
"We all pay for our choices."
4
"If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive."
4
"I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift."
4
"I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility."
4
"We took our eye off the ball as a company."
4
"If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis."
4
"As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians."
4
"We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page."
4
"I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic."
4
"I don't think I'm egotistical as much as I'm taking responsibility for what I'm putting out there."
4
"To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of."
4
"I think every American has a role in saving this country. Whether you're Democrat, Republican, independent, it doesn't matter. We all know the country's in trouble. We may disagree on how to solve it, but we all know the country's in trouble."
4
"But if I had committed a breach of privilege, it was the privilege of the Senate, and not of this House, which was violated. I was answerable there and not here."
4
"We should each be a carrier of the Kingdom."
4
"The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top."
4
"I'm only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else's life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there's no point in me blaming you for what's wrong in my life."
4
"It is wickedness when you only enjoy the benefit of a country and not contribute to the development of the country."
4
"Selfishness is the unwillingness to give up your soul for the rehabilitation of your future."
4
"There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward."
4
"Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?"
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"Polygamy is a luxury of the cave-people, and monogamy is an existential responsibility of the civilized society."
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