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Responsibility Quotes
"Rules and responsibilities: these are the ties that bind us. We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves. I will do what I have to do. And I will do what I must."
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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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"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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"You are responsible for doing what good you can with what you have, and any good is better than none."
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"If you don t have enough money, you might have too many excuses."
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"We employ free will to design of our own being and therefore we must accept responsibility for our actions."
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"I was going to mean what I said, to be direct and firm.I found my moleskin notebook and on the page behind the pages addressed to Never-Never and my family-two unsent letters-I wrote: I am the director of my life."
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"Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore."
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"We have a duty to care for the environment."
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"Because that happened to me when I was little, this is how I will now treat other people"; "Because so and so beat me up and hurt me a long time ago, that gives me the right to treat people the way I treat them, today"; "Because life was hard on me, life should be hard on everyone else around me"- does this sound/ look familiar? It's called victim mentality. When people choose to be the direct product of everything that happened to them, the direct product of every single pair of hands that hurt them. And the world, to these people, must bend over backwards in order to accommodate their wounds. Some people don't want to be loved; they just want to make the world pay."
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"Before you save the world, make sure your own house is in order."
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"Everything that is experienced through the five senses is all 'discharge'. It is due to one's merit karmas that everything works according to one's wishes, but he claims, 'I did it' and when one faces losses, he will say, 'God did it' or 'my horoscope is unfavorable'."
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"Waiting is often a decision not to accept responsibility and is one of the reasons why some people never reach their potential."
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"There's plenty of blame to go around."
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"You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man and to the man with special talents this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time than the peril of being judged not to have lived at all."
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"Just following orders' is no excuse unless you're in the bedroom."
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"One gets 'headaches', because he gives headache to others."
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"The time to clean our city of any dirt begins individual action for collective clean communities."
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"Accidents and sicknesses are accepted as deserved retribution by the person who has feelings of guilt."
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"I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else."
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"Your lifestyle should show some form of responsibility for the nation where you were born and/or the nation where you live."
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"To be a man is precisely to be responsible."
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"He could hardly breathe at the though of his son and Quintana in Sorel with no one to protect them."
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"Take responsibility for your life and count solely on yourself."
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"She taught me only how to need to be taken care of. I was here because I needed to learn to take responsibility for making my own decisions - to earn my own trust."
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"But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!"
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"Until you accept responsibility for your life, someone else runs your life."
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"Take care of your car in the garage, and the car will take care of you on the road."
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"Always learn to take responsibility for your actions."
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"And if I do fall asleep, Marla has to keep track of Tyler. Where he goes. What he does. So maybe during the day, I can rush around and undo the damage."
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"Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day."
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"In the long run, success or failure will beconditioned upon the way in which the average man, the average women, does his or her duty, first in the ordinary, every-day affairs of life, and next in those great occasional cries which call for heroic virtues. The average citizen must be a good citizen if our republics are to succeed. The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in the average citizenship of the nation."
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"Any church that is overly emphasizing the role of miracles is encouraging his members to be indolent."
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"All your sufferings can be alleviated by no other person but you."
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"As long as she is near or within his power to reach, he will be drawn to her, leaving less of him for others and that's why she had to leave. She knew, despite her own great desire, that there are consequences and responsibilities that are more important and life-altering than personal feelings."
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"When a dog goes bad, the fault lies with his master."
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"It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's."
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"We are the author of our own destruction."
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"You do what you have to do. That's who you seem to be to me, anyway. You're one who does what he has to do."
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"When something means nothing to you, you can do everything you want; but someday, somehow you may have to pay for it."
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"Irresponsibility is a sin with a high price tag."
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"Bottom line? As much as youwanted someone to change and believed they could, they were in control of their life. Not you. And you could throw yourself against the wall of their choices until you were black-and-blue and dizzy as hell, but unless they decided to take a different road, the outcome wasn't going to be what you wanted."
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"You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone. Each person has to save himself first, then you can move in and help. I have found this philosophy does not work during a gun battle, or a knife fight either. Outside of that it works just fine."
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"In the 21st century, it can't be about who we might make, and what they might do, anymore. It has to be about who we are and what we're going to do."
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"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule."
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"If girls realized their responsibilities they would be so careful when they smiled that they would probably abandon the practice altogether. There are moments in a man's life when a girl's smile can have as important results as an explosion of dynamite."
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"From the moment that man believes neither in God nor in immortal life, he becomes 'responsible for everything alive, for everything that, born of suffering, is condemned to suffer from life.' It is he, and he alone, who must discover law and order. Then the time of exile begins, the endless search for justification, the aimless nostalgia, 'the most painful, the most heartbreaking question, that of the heart which asks itself: where can I feel at home?"
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"Ironically people will thank a deity for "letting" them win a race, but blame a "witch" if they stumble, look for the nearest suspect, and kill them. Why not blame the deity? Why not accept the setback as easily as they accept the victory/ Time people grew up some, I think - and stopped looking for theoretical "somebodies" to blame for their own misfortunes."
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