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Responsibility Quotes
"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."
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"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."
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"I need to complete my homework on time."
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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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"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'."
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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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"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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"Now you can start paying for it with money instead of blood."
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"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."
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"In the end it will be your 'Actions 'Convictions & 'Thoughts which will determine how you shaped your life."
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"One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier."
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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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"A father should do more - a father should give more to his children than he takes."
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"If we do not make tough decisions now, future Americans will have to make even tougher ones."
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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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"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."
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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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"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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"I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility."
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"It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it."
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"You are responsible for everything you TWEET and RETWEET."
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"If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive."
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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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"Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences."
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"The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it."
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"Don't you know that everything you do in life has consequences?"
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"As a believer, you need to take responsibility of the Kingdom of God on earth."
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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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"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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"Destiny n: a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure."
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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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"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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"When you are extravagant, you can result yourself facing alot of debt and not adjust to the pursuit of happiness."
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"I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg."
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"When you are entrusted with a secret, you become irrevocably accountable for what you do or don't do after your mind is colored by the knowledge of it."
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"Some people are born to hold keys, while others are born to use them."
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"It is exclusively other people's responsibility to please themselves."
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"Selfishness is the unwillingness to give up your soul for the rehabilitation of your future."
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"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."
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"Where's Dekka? Astrid asked."In the basement, Edilio said. "She kept going for a long time. Her and Orc and Jack. But she's sick. Tired and sick. And she got a bad burn on one hand. That was it for her. I made her go to Dahra. Lana will, you know, when she's done with Man, I'm sorry, he said as he began crying again. "I can't be digging graves. Someone else has to do that, okay? I can't do that anymore."
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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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"But she had learnt, in those solemn hours of thought, that she herself must one day answer for her own life, and what she had done with it; and she tried to settle that most difficult problem, how much was to be utterly merged in obedience to authority, and how much might be set apart for freedom in working."
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"Sometimes we need to look at everything going wrong in our lives and admit to ourselves, "I am the only common denominator here."
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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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"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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"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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"And, if there was any responsibility in refusing to obey, he was willing to accept it."
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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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"I do feel I have a responsibility to the youths. For real."
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