Responsibility
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- Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
- Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
- Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.
- Most of us expect too much from others and not enough from ourselves.
- My environment may be making me what I am, but I am permitting the environment.
- My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
- My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
- Never be ashamed of anything you’ve done in your life. Face it, fix it, make it better.
- Never complain if you don't have a better solution.
- Never make excuses. Your friends don’t need them and your foes won’t believe them.John WoodenCommonly attributed
- No man ever did a designed injury to another, without doing a greater to himself.
- We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
- No one will take better care of your dream than you.
- No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any.
- No; the two kinds of people on earth I mean Are the people who lift, and the people who lean.
- Nobody will persist long in helping those who will not help themselves.
- Nobody’s responsible for our problems but us.
- Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.
- Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns.
- Nothing can work me damage except myself.
- Nothing can work me damage except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
- Nothing is more expensive than penuriousness; nothing more anxious than carelessness; and every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.
- Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
- O Liberty! Liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name.
- Of vain things, excuses are the vainest.
- Once you see yourself as a victim of circumstance, there will always be, in the way of everything you might achieve, a circumstance.
- One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
- One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.
- Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
- Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved.
- Others are affected by what I am, and say, and do. And these others have also their sphere of influence. So that a single act of mine may spread in widening circles through a nation or humanity.
- Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything.
- Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
- Our success will not come from the acts of our forefathers, but can come alone from what we are doing now.
- Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
- People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
- People who grow are just people who own their mistakes and move on.
- Power is duty; freedom is responsibility.
- Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.
- Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.