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Responsibility Quotes


"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."


"You need to re-assess your responsibility before making any necessary conclusion."


"Aside God, you have just one boss! That is you. You choose to be a good boss or a bad boss with the business of your life! That is you!"


"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."


"We are each responsible for our own emotional well being."


"The wrong man is not always wrong because of his wrong actions, often he is wrong because of no actions."


"Quiet that self-sabotaging inner voice that lays blame anywhere besides at the altar of your feet. We are responsible for the quality of our lives."


"To those who are given much, much is expected."


"Understand this first and foremost that you are the center of your existence; nobody else is responsible. No matter how burdensome it feels, but you alone are responsible. If you accept this truth all sorrow will soon disappear. Because once it is clear that I am making this game, how long will it take you to destroy it?"


"You are here to leave something! You are here to make a point! It is your responsibility to find the point you have to mind or you shall always mind the point others are hitting or missing at the expense of your own point! When you know the point to hit, mind the point and don't miss the point, and no matter how many times you try and fail, let the point be your point and keep hitting!"


"You should've thought of that before becoming a firefighter."


"I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything."


"But it's up to us...' he said softly. 'it's up to us not to lose this."


"We have an obligation to make things beautiful, to not leave the world uglier than we found it."


"I have this, this gift, I know that; and I know my obligation to it."


"One must care about a world one will not see."


"We forget that we humans are animals, inextricably connected to the world and everything in it. In the rush to bring GMO food to the world because it was good for us, nobody had asked the question whether it would be good for the world."


"The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly."


"Until the end of time, living happily will remain your sole responsibility on earth."


"Trust me, Anita, if you get dead, especially if he blames himself in any way, he will be a force of destruction looking for a place to be aimed. And he's blamed himself for introducing you to Olaf here from the get-go. If Olaf did to you what he's done to some of his other victims, Edward would drown the world in blood to erase those images."


"Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause."


"After all is said and done, you are free to choose but you are not free from the consequence of your choice."



"Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long."


"If you would have a faithful servant and one that you like serve yourself."


"You can blame people and situations for your misery, hunger, deprivation and illness, but you are the only person can be blamed for your illiteracy."


"Yes, contrast teaches us a great many things and there is purpose for it. Yet it is time to transcend your everyday dramas that are but drops in an ocean. Cease focusing on your droplets of water and look around you. Everything you say and touch and do sets into motion ripples that either heal and create or curse and destroy. Let me repeat: Everything."



"Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required."



"If one takes responsibility for the mistakes, he is the true person, isn't it? Do not insist. Instead of insisting, instead of blaming others, take the responsibility of the mistakes on your head!"


"Free-will doesn't include shit-happens,unless that's the goal of one's intention."


"If we don't do our best and constantly ask God for miracles, it means we are objurgating our responsibility to God."


"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."


"If we are really committed, we better get start taking care of our shit."



"If you are straightforward, then others will have no choice but to be straightforward with you. If someone curses you, is he doing so at your responsibility? Is he doing so at God's responsibility? No. He curses you at his own responsibility. And if you were to curse back, then it will be at your responsibility."


"Any person striving to accomplish anything worthwhile will risk their personal vivacity by assuming responsibility that exceeds their talent and abilities and work beyond their physical strength and emotional stamina. A motivated person will endure loneliness and despair and open-mindedly accept righteous criticism."


"Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis recklessness on Wall Street did."


"Stop the blame game, you can't win it! All fans of blame are defeated in every way... Don't join them!"



"A circumstance is not easy to come by and when it does, there are causes behind it. Therefore I do those things which bring an end to all the causes."


"Don't destroy Half-Blood while we're gone," was Chiron's parting instruction. Argus pointed two fingers at his eyes and then at us. This took a few minutes since he has one hundred eyes, but we got the message - be good, or else."


"Sometimes I am asked if I know the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude HAS a response. What I do know is that there is response in responsibility. When we speak of this era of evil and darkness, so close and yet so distant, responsibility is the key word,The witness has forced himself to testify. For the youth of today, for the children who will be born tomorrow. He does not want his past to become their future."


"When you blame others you are effectively proclaiming that you are only response to stimuli."


"When you spent your time, you are actually spending your life."


"If you choose to walk through the fire, why do you complain it's hot?"


"Take responsibility for the disenfranchised people."


"Taking personal responsibility is not about being "responsible" - it is about seeing your truth and evolving."


"If you do not manage things, be prepared to face the consequences."


"In nations where to most people, the personal responsibility of a citizen towards the nation does not really mean anything, most citizens of such nations end up playing the blame game."


"We do not owe any soul, except that which played the most vital role in our lives."


"To incessantly blame others for my shortcomings is cowardice borne of fear, fed by fear, and haunted by fear. To be steadfastly accountable for my shortcomings is bravery borne of God, fed by God, and blessed by God."


"He who cannot dance blames the song."


"You shouldn't blame others for the conditions you endure, we each have the freedom to follow which path we desire in life."
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