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Responsibility Quotes
"One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier."
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"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."
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"Destiny n: a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure."
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"The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion."
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"Every tub must stand on its own bottom."
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"There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me."
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"God provides the food, men provide the cooks."
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"We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities."
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"It is exclusively other people's responsibility to please themselves."
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"If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive."
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"I don't think I'm egotistical as much as I'm taking responsibility for what I'm putting out there."
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"And, if there was any responsibility in refusing to obey, he was willing to accept it."
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"When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill."
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"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'."
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"If you truly love yourself then you will take 100% full responsibility for your thoughts and actions."
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"Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amount of privilege and therefore we have a huge amount of responsibility. We live in free societies where we are not afraid of the police; we have extraordinary wealth available to us by global standards. If you have those things, then you have the kind of responsibility that a person does not have if he or she is slaving seventy hours a week to put food on the table; a responsibility at the very least to inform yourself about power. Beyond that, it is a question of whether you believe in moral certainties or not."
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"If I do wrong, I may do it unwittingly, thinking I am doing something for the best; but if it turns out to be wrong, I have done it, and I must bear the responsibility. It is not somebody else's or something else's fault. If it is I am less than human. Like everybody else, I tend to rationalize and alibi, before I let myself admit, "Yes, I did this. I am sorry. I will do what I can to make reparation. Our sins defeat us unless we are willing to recognize them, confess them, and become healed and whole and holy-not qualified, mind you; just holy."
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"Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing."
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"There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward."
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"In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility."
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"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."
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"As a university, we're not focused on bringing about huge reforms - that's not our role."
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"Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow."
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"Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money."
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"When we all play our part the world will run as designed. Do your part and do it now!"
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"No," I said. "I choose the prophecy. It will be about me.""Why are you saying that?" she cried. "You want to be responsible for the whole world?"It was the last thing I wanted, but I didn't say that. I knew I had to step up and claim it."I can't let Nico be in any more danger," I said. "I owe that much to his sister. I let them both down. I'm not going to let that poor kid suffer any more."
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"And it's not a finger-pointing issue to me; I take as much responsibility as I can. It was more just me not really knowing what I wanted to do and how to get it done."
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"I do feel I have a responsibility to the youths. For real."
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"The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed."
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"Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks."
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"A responsible person accepts the results of his choices, attributing blame or praise to himself; that is what makes you happy with the way you turned out."
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"A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed."
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"Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter."
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"Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days sitting on their shoulders, forcing them to commit acts they would otherwise find repulsive. 'The devil made me do it.' I have never made one of them do anything. Never. They live their own tiny lives. I do not live their lives for them."
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"Selfishness is the unwillingness to give up your soul for the rehabilitation of your future."
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"Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous."
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"You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong."
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"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!"
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"If people are not in the process of production, they don't deserve anything."
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"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."
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"Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?"
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"I used to want to be a cop for a brief time, a detective, solving crimes and upholding the law, ever since I stated watching crime shows in junior high. But being a cop, contrary to what many believe, isn't like the films or television shows that we see every day. If you're the cop who has to have the grim duty of telling a parent that their child was killed, or who loses their friend on a dangerous case, or who has to interview victims of horrible crimes, somehow I imagine that you just want to quit forever on some days."
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"At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again. The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility."
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"You become a man when you give your family the best of who you are."
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"A father should do more - a father should give more to his children than he takes."
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"I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist."
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"We all pay for our choices."
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"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."
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