Responsibility Quotes

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The reason people blame things on the previous generation is that there's only one other choice. — Doug Larson
In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction and antisocial behavior,… — Don Henley
To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is… — Frederick Salomon Perls
I can't think of anything that would do more toward putting us back on the road to liberty and personal responsibility than for the average… — Neal Boortz
The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being. — Konrad Lorenz
Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for… — Stephen Covey
Rich people...take responsibility for the results in their lives and act upon the mind-set "It will work because I'll make it work." — T. Harv Eker
No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility. — Peter Drucker
If I had to reduce the responsibilities of a good follower to a single rule, it would be to speak truth to power. — Warren G. Bennis
But we assure the socialists that we repudiate only forced organization, not natural organization. We repudiate the forms of association that are forced upon us,… — Frederic Bastiat
It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility entails. Will they… — Frederic Bastiat
The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim… — Lysander Spooner
The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is… — Ayn Rand
In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves. — Walter E. Williams
The American heritage was one of individual liberty, personal responsibility and freedom from government ... Unfortunately ... that heritage has been lost. Americans no longer… — Harry Browne
The police can't stop an intruder, mugger, or stalker from hurting you. They can pursue him only after he has hurt or killed you. Protecting… — Harry Browne
It's amazing how someone's IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them. — Tim Ferriss
If humankind would accept and acknowledge this responsibility and become creatively engaged in the process of evolution, consciously as well as unconsciously, a new reality… — Jonas Salk
It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in… — Carl Sagan
About two million years ago, man appeared. He has become the dominant species on the earth. All other living things, animal and plant, live by… — George Wald

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