Responsibility Quotes
4281 Responsibility quotes by 2749 unique authors
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The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is merely some…
— B.F. Skinner
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You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgement and bearing sole responsibility for your own life. You have been…
— Ayn Rand
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The realization that my problem was one that concerned all men, a problem of living and thinking, suddenly swept over me and I was overwhelmed…
— Hermann Hesse
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When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back to being the…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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Peope, especially unhappy people, want a cause. They want something to belong to, to be a part of something great and bigger, and to be…
— Ilona Andrews
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The capacity for love that makes dogs such rewarding companions has a flip-side: They find it difficult to cope without us. Since we humans programmed…
— John Bradshaw
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When a baby is born the mother in particular enters into a new larger relationship with the world. She has become connected to all people.…
— Gavin de Becker
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I loved the fact that it wasn't my responsibility to change somebody, that it was God's, that my part was just to communicate love and…
— Donald Miller
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The measure of our mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
— Abraham Lincoln
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The feeling of relinquishing responsibility to someone else, letting him take control, was a relief beyond words.
— Lisa Kleypas
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I had to take responsibility, even if it meant saying no to an authority figure, because I was the authority on me.
— Kelley Armstrong
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I know,” said Peter. “Perhaps better than anyone. But you can’t stay a child forever. To choose to speak into Echo’s Well is to choose…
— James A. Owen
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One must care about a world one will not see.
— Bertrand Russell
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What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature
— Isaac Marion
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Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility.
— Rajneesh
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We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared…
— Howard Zinn
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The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.
— Paulo Coelho
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You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly,…
— Bertrand Russell
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A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The stretch of years leaves none unmarked: the blissful sense of youthful invincibility peels away and responsibility brings its weight to bear.
— Kate Morton
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Unless you are terribly, terribly careful, you run the danger-- without even knowing it is happening to you-- of slipping into the fatal error of…
— Edward Albee
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When God knows you're ready for the responsibility of commitment, He'll reveal the right person under the right circumstances.
— Joshua Harris
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It's just as easy to be lonely in a city as out in the wilderness. Easier, really. It's harder to get to know someone when…
— Mercedes Lackey
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