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Responsibility Quotes
"Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of 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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"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, if there was any responsibility in refusing to obey, he was willing to accept it."
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"Selfishness is the unwillingness to give up your soul for the rehabilitation of your future."
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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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"Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous."
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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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"They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame."
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"I do feel I have a responsibility to the youths. For real."
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"I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else."
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"Daemon!" Dee called from the kitchen. "I need your help!""We should go see what she's doing before she destroys your kitchen." He rubbed his hands down his face. "It's possible."
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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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"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses."
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"If the fans want me out, I'll put my hands up and leave. Like a proper man. I won't make excuses, I'll leave."
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"We think we have a responsibility. And I think it's important for all of us in the Western world to realize that we've all been blessed a lot and if you go to these parts they don't have a lot, even before the tsunami."
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"It is not the job for those who are angry about the events of the day to strike out and post things that they hope will incite anger in others as well. Do not sell your social media friends short as far as their ability to find the news for themselves."
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"Things do not happen to us. They happen because of us."
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"Taking responsibility of your life and knowing the fact that YOU attract people and events in your life is scary, isn't it?"
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"Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all this when he is called to obedient and responsible action in faith and in exclusive allegiance to God - the responsible man, who tries to make his whole life an answer to the question and call of God."
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"So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well."
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"It is not helpful to have those kind of comments come out when we've got troops in combat."
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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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"Sitting in this chair, my recommendation would carry too much weight."
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"I'm the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of the people I've never even met."
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"The power behind taking responsibility for your actions lies in putting an end to negative thought patterns. You no longer dwell on what went wrong or focus on whom you are going to blame. You don't waste time building roadblocks to your success. Instead, you are set free and can now focus on succeeding."
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"You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?""I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it."
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"What you inherit from your fathermust first be earned before it's yours."
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"We all pay for our choices."
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"The fact that you made worse decisions in the past shouldn't be an excuse to make bad decisions in the present."
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"Don't accuse others of your past, hidden guilt and sins."
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"She had other favourite lines. Our gas oven blew up. The repairman came out and said he didn't like the look of it, which was unsurprising as the oven and the wall were black. Mrs Winterson replied, 'It's a fault to heaven, a fault against the dead, and a fault to nature.' That is a heavy load for a gas oven to bear. She liked that phrase and it was more than once used towards me; when some well-wisher asked how I was, Mrs W looked down and sighed, 'She's a fault to heaven, a fault against the dead, and a fault to nature.'This was even worse for me than it had been for the gas oven. I was particularly worried about the 'dead' part, and wondered which buried and unfortunate relative I had so offended."
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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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"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility."
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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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"I would only blame myself if something happened to you."
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"To be a man is precisely to be responsible."
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"For a witch stands on the very edge of everything, between the light and the dark, between life and death, making choices, making decisions so that others may pretend no decisions have even been needed. Sometimes they need to help some poor soul through the final hours, help them to find the door, not to get lost in the dark."
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"Trademark yourself with the mark of excellence."
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"Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility."
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"The reason why we get the same partners is not because people are the same, but because we pull the dark shadow of past hurts over our eyes and we live the same all over again. We change the actors, but never the masks we give them in our play."
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"A man who has come to the full realization of his responsibility to men won't stick to one man. It will be foolhardy if he does that."
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"There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders."
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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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"I have to take responsibility for anything that happened within its businesses."
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"We should responsibly carry out the business that God has assigned for us to do."
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"Every action, thought and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect. If we participate in the cause, it is not possible for us not to participate in the effect. In this most profound way, we are held responsible for our every action, thought, and feeling which is to say, for our every intention it is therefore, wise for us to become aware of the many intentions that inform our experience, to sort out which intentions produce which effects, and to choose our intentions according to the effects that we desire to produce."
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