The best years of your life are the ones in which you
decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
~
Albert Ellis
Duty is what one expects from others.
~ Oscar Wilde
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
~
William James
Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.
~
Henry S. Haskins
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
~
Booker T. Washington
God has entrusted me with myself.
~
Epictetus
My belief is that personal freedom cannot grow beyond personal responsibility.
The more people that learn to be fully accountable for their lives, the more freedom each of us can enjoy and the more fulfilling all of our lives will be.
~
Reed Konsler
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
~
Abigail Van Buren
"I must do something" always solves more problems than "Something must be done."
~
Author Unknown
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
~
James Allen
"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet."
~
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.
~
William McFee
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
~
Joan Didion
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else.
~
Ivern Ball
The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility.
~
Giosué Borsi
We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.
~
Pearl Buck
With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation.
~
Edison Haines
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
~
John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
~
Erica Jong
The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree
I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed.
I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.
~
George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
~
Author Unknown
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it."
~
Sidney J. Harris
The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.
~
Woodrow Wilson
We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes.
~
Anne C. Weisberg, Everything a Working Mother Needs to Know, 1994
Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one.
~
H.W. Lewis
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
~ Albert Einstein
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
~ George Bernard Shaw
No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.
~
Gerald W. Johnson
Don't spend your precious time asking 'Why isn't the world a better place?'
It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is 'How can I make it better?' To that there is an answer.
~
Leo Buscaglia
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility ...
In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have ... is the ability to take on responsibility.
~
Michael Korda
It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.
~
Stanley Milgram
When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
~
Louis Nizer
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
~
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation.
If we can only stop thinking of children as individual property and think of them as the next generation, then we can realize we all have a role to play.
~
Charlotte Davis Kasl
He was a thinker, political figure, educator, and founder of the Ru School of Chinese thought.
Known to the Chinese as Master Kong and to the rest of the world as Confucius, he created a philosophy
based on virtue and believed in honesty, respect, sincerity.
Confucius taught that it was not the satisfaction of the senses in the present moment that would bring true
happiness, but well-planned actions and the helping of fellow man which mattered most.
(551-479 BCE)
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
~ Nicolas Copernicus
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
~ Mark Twain
