responsibility

1.

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

- Shula, Don

2.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

- Hill, Napoleon

3.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

- Reagan, Ronald

4.

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have ? life itself.

- Anderson, Walter

5.

I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.

- O'Rourke, P. J.

6.

There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

- Milton Friedman

7.

To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

8.

More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man -- he -- himself.

- Heatter, Gabriel

9.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

- Curie, Madame Marie

10.

When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.

- O'Neil, George

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We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

- Richard Feynman

12.

I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind.

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama

13.

Some people grow under responsibility, others merely swell.

- Hubbell

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I hate science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast. It is far easier for a Hitler or a Stalin to find a mock-scientific excuse for persecution than it was for Dominic to find a mock-Christian one.

- Bunting, Basil

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

- Holland, Josiah Gilbert

16.

A man carries his success or his failure with him, it does not depend on outside conditions.

- Trine, Ralph Waldo

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One can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it.

- Benvenuto Cellini

18.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

- Aldrich, Withrop

19.

A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.

- Winkler, Henry

20.

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

- Zarlenga, Peter Nivio