Responsibility
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- Don’t say, “If I could, I would”. Say, “If I can, I will”.
- Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
- 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.
- Each man has his fortune in his own hands, as the artist has a piece of rude matter, which he is to fashion into a certain shape.
- Empowerment means that people have the freedom to act. It also means that they are accountable for results.
- Even if you have a problem, you don’t need to be one.
- Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.
- Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
- Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
- Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period.
- Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
- Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
- Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.Booker T. WashingtonSourced
- For better or worse, what you allow will continue.
- For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.
- Freedom and responsibility aren’t given, they’re taken.
- Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
- Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction.
- Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
- Future you pays for the sins of present you. Future you gains from the good of present you. There is no escaping consequence.
- Give someone responsibility and they will do their best. Make them accountable and they will do even better.
- Great leaders take much responsibility and little credit.
- He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
- He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.
- He that voluntarily continues ignorant is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.
- He that voluntarily continues ignorant, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces: as to him that should extinguish the tapers of a lighthouse might justly be imputed the calamities of shipwrecks.
- He who promptly corrects, makes his error the less.
- Heredity is much, environment is much, but I am much more.
- Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
- I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
- I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
- I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
- I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.
- I can't control what life hands me. What I can control is how I handle it.
- I do my best because I’m counting on you counting on me.
- If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.
- If there is a hard-won ability I would wish to take into a second life, it is the ability to recognize tomorrow's regret in today's excuse.
- If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
- If you can't even clean up your own room, who the hell are you to give advice to the world?
- If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense.