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Responsibility Quotes
"Africa was full of people in need of help and there had to be a limit. You simply could not help everybody; but you could at least help those who came into your life. That principle allowed you to deal with the suffering you saw. That was your suffering. Other people would have to deal with the suffering that they, in their turn, came across."
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"You should've thought of that before becoming a firefighter."
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"I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything."
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"But unless we determine to take action,' said the old man querulously, as if struggling against something deeply insouciant in his nature, 'then we shall all be destroyed, we shall all die. Surely we care about that?' 'Not enough to want to get killed over it,' said Ford."
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"Before you save the world, make sure your own house is in order."
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"Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it."
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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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"The price of greatness is responsibility."
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"You are responsibility of your life."
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"There is no place for beggary [wanting things from others] in the current era. The law of vyavasthit [scientific circumstantial evidences] is such that one who has decided never to beg, will never have situation to beg."
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"There's plenty of blame to go around."
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"Things change everyday. With each new dawn, it is not the same world as before. And you're not the same person you were either."
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"You are the grand estate and administrator of - now."
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"I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men-for certain people-to be able to provide their loved ones with material comforts and protection at all times. I forget how dangerously reduced some men can feel when that basic ability has been stripped from them. I forget how much that matters to men, what it represents."
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"Yes, and words are not deeds, Solanka allowed, moving off fretfully. Though words can become deeds. If said in the right place and at the right time, they can move mountains and change the world. Also, uh-huh, not knowing what you're doing - separating deeds from the words that define them - was apparently becoming an acceptable excuse. To say "I didn't mean it" was to erase meaning from your misdeeds, at least in the opinion of the Beloved ALis of the world. Could that be so? Obviously, no. No, it simply could not. Many people would say that even a genuine act of repentance could not atone for a crime, much less this unexplained blankness - an infinitely lesser excuse, a mere assertion of ignorance that wouldn't even register on any scale of regret."
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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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"Your responsibility is to not question God's actions or what looks like a lack of action. Your obligation is to count on God's character."
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"Why can't I do it? [Isabel] asked."Do what?"Just forget about everything. Just go somewhere and get smashed and pretend like there are no problems or consequences. I know why. Because there are still problems and consequences. And going and--and--partying doesn't make them go away. I feel like I'm the only sane person in the world. I don't get why this whole world runs on stupidity."
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"It's easy to make a mess when you're not the one who has to clean it up."
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"A shepherd may like to travel, but he should never forget his sheep."
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"Your right actions might hurt someone, so if required apologize for your right actions, but don't stop taking right actions."
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"If you follow the rules, it's your own fault."
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"If you can show people how to build castles, make sure you do not neglect building and nurturing your own."
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"There are no free passes in life, outcomes will always mirror the input."
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"The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life."
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"I stole their future from them, I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past."
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"The power to kill does not come without responsibility."
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"There are a lot of things I can't control. I don't know what's going to happen in the next few days.I don't want what I am going to face, what kind of choices I am going to have to make. I can't predict it. I can't control it. It's too big.' I nodded at my shovel. 'But that, I can predict. I know that if I pick up that shovel and clear the snow from the walkways, it's going to make my neighbors safer and happier.' I glanced at him and shrugged. 'It's worthwhile to me."
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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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"If you would have a faithful servant and one that you like serve yourself."
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"From the neglect of a real duty, she became the slave of a false one."
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"Always learn to take responsibility for your actions."
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"It's the time you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important...People have forgotten this truth, but you mustn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. You're responsible for your rose."
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"Our responsibility as privileged human beings is to pay back for the opportunities we've received."
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"Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power."
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"We have the right and the responsibility to be intolerant of those things which should not be tolerated."
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"If we are really committed, we better get start taking care of our shit."
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"The time to clean our city of any dirt begins individual action for collective clean communities."
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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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"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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"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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"The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved."
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"They that milk the cow everyday without feeding it well must never complain about how it keeps growing lean."
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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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"When I say maturity, I mean an inner integrity. And this inner integrity comes only when you stop making others responsible, when you stop saying that the other is creating your suffering, when you start realizing that you are the creator of your suffering. This is the first step towards maturity: I am responsible. Whatsoever is happening, it is my doing.You feel sad. Is this your doing? You will feel very much disturbed, but if you can remain with this feeling, sooner or later you will be able to stop doing many things. This is what the theory of karma is all about. You are responsible. Don't say society is responsible, don't say that parents are responsible, don't say the economic conditions are responsible, don't throw the responsibility onto anybody. YOU are responsible."
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"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."
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