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Responsibility Quotations

Women must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

Susan B. Anthony

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

Billie Jean King

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

John Steinbeck

Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Erica Jong

There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.

Mary Lyons

They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

Sappho

Many have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You remain responsible forever, for what you have tamed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You can't take responsibility for everything. You can't have that kind of control At some point, it's all out of our hands.

Faye Dunaway

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse for the philosophy of responsibility.

Barbara Jordan

The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility.

Jessamyn West

We do not do what we want, and yet we are responsible for what we are.

John-Paul Sartre

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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If it is to be, it is up to me.

William H Johnsen

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill

Nobody can do it for you.

Ralph Cordiner

Look twice before you leap.

Charlotte Bront

You can delegate authority, but not responsibility.

Stephen W. Comiskey

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Winston Churchill

With great power comes great responsibility.

Voltaire

No snowflake in an avalanch ever feels responsible.

Voltaire

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

Aristotle

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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Rudyard Kipling

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

Samuel Smiles

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

George Eliot

You can't dodge your responsibilities by saying they don't exist!

Douglas Adams

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.

George Washington Carver
Each of us has a responsibility for being alive: one responsibility to creation, of which we are a part, another to the creator a debt we repay by trying to extend our areas of comprehension.
If we really want to know who is responsible for the mess we're in, all we have to do is look in the mirror. You and I own this country, and we are responsible for what happens to it.
The conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young-- Young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
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.
We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us--singly and individually--takes responsibility for our actions.

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