Thoughts About Responsibility Anonymous Found on the

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Thoughts About Responsibility

• Anonymous
• Found on the Internet

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Personal Responsibility

• Action springs not from thought, but from a
  readiness for responsibility. Dietrich Bonhoffer

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Personal Responsibility

• Knowledge is not a loose-leaf notebook of facts.
  Above all, it is a responsibility for the
  integrity of what we are, primarily of what we
  are as ethical creatures. Jacob Bronowski (1908 -
  1974) English historian, mathematician

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• The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to
  increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to
  be found in every man and in the world. It
  cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or
  suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great
  work has ever been based on hatred and contempt.
  On the contrary, there is not a single true work
  of art that has not in the end added to the inner
  freedom of each person who has known and loved
  it.
• Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)

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• 99 of the failures come from people who have the
  habit of making excuses." -- George Washington
  Carver

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• The price of greatness is responsibility.
• Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

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• Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to
  decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves
  will affect us. -- Stephen Covey

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• Responsibility is the thing people dread most of
  all. Yet it is the only thing in the world that
  develops us, gives our manhood or womanhood
  fiber.Frank Crane

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• Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility
  and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as
  if you alone had done the wrong. Tyron Edwards

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• If there is any responsibility in the cycle of
  life it must be that one generation owes to the
  next that strength by which it can come to face
  ultimate concerns in its own way. - Erik H.
  Erikson

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• Responsibility...is...the ability to fulfill
  one's needs and to do so in a way that does not
  deprive  others of the ability  to fulfill their
  needs.  Dr. William Glasser

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• The teaching of responsibility is the most
  important task of all higher animals, man most
  certainly included.  Dr. William Glasser

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• In any free society where terrible wrongs exist,
  some are guilty - all are responsible. - Abraham
  Heschel

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• In a completely rational society, the best of us
  would be teachers and the rest of us would have
  to settle for something less, because passing
  civilization along from one generation to the
  next ought to be the highest honor and the
  highest responsibility anyone could have. Lee
  Iacocca

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• The game is my life. It demands loyalty and
  responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment
  and peace. Michael Jordan

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• Writing is one of the few professions left where
  you take all the responsibility for what you do.
  It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you
  as a writer if you start thinking about responses
  to your work or what your audience needs. Erica
  Jong

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• Take your life in your own hands, and what
  happens? A terrible thing no one to blame. -
  Erica Jong

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• Our privileges can be no greater than our
  obligations. The protection of our rights can
  endure no longer than the performance of our
  responsibilities. - John F. Kennedy

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• Life affords no greater responsibility, no
  greater privilege, than raising of the next
  generation. C. Everett Koop (1908 - 1974) English
  historian, mathematician

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• You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow
  by evading it today.
• Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

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• We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a
  right and nobody's got a responsibility. Newton
  Minow, chairman of the FCC

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• In dreams begins responsibility. Edna O'Brien

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• Responsibility educates.Wendell Phillips (1811 -
  1884) US abolitionist

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• Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege,
  opportunity, and responsibility to give something
  back by becoming more. Anthony Robbins

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• Learning is facilitated when the student
  participates  responsibly in the learning
  process.  Carl Rogers

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• It is not what happens that determines the major
  part of your future.  What happens, happens to us
  all.  It is what you do about what happens that
  counts. -- Jim Rohn

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• I believe that we are solely responsible for our
  choices, and we have to accept the consequences
  of every deed, word, and thought throughout our
  lifetime.  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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• Man is condemned to be free because once thrown
  into the world, he is responsible for everything
  he does.- Jean-Paul Sartre

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• Man must cease attributing his problems to his
  environment, and learn again to exercise his will
  -- his personal responsibility.Albert Schweitzer
  (1875 - 1965) French theologian, musician,
  medical missionary

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• Liberty means responsibility. That is why most
  men dread it.  George Bernard Shaw

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• The day you take complete responsibility for
  yourself, the day you stop making any excuses,
  that's the day you start to the top.O. J.
  Simpson

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• The ability to accept responsibility is the
  measure of the man.  --Roy L. Smith

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• To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
  -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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• As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of
  choice, and we cannot shuffle off our
  responsibility upon the shoulders of God or
  nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up
  to us. A. J. Toynbee

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• Peak performance begins with your taking complete
  responsibility for your life and everything that
  happens to you.- Brian Tracy

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• The greatest gifts you can give your children are
  the roots of responsibility and the wings of
  independence. Denis Waitley, US motivational
  speaker

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• Be responsible and don't sacrifice your heart's
  deepest goals dreams for the shallow, ephemeral
  pleasure of the moment.  L Walkup

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• Responsibility is the price of greatness. 
• Churchill

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• My philosophy is that not only are you
  responsible for  your life, but doing the best at
  this moment puts you in  the best place for the
  next moment. - Oprah Winfrey