Responsibility
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- Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
- Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
- Responsibility educates.
- Responsibility is the price of freedom.
- Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
- Rich people believe “I create my life”. Poor people believe “Life happens to me”.
- Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don’t have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
- Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders and know that you’re the creator of your own destiny.
- Sweat is the destiny of all trades, whether of the brows or of the mind. God never allowed any man to do nothing.
- Taking responsibility gives us power and control, because when we recognize the relationship between our choices and their consequences, then the next time we don’t like a consequence we can make a different choice.
- 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.
- The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
- The characteristic of a philosopher is that he looks to himself for all help or harm.
- The degree of responsibility you take for your life determines how much change you can create in it.
- The enemy of accountability is ambiguity.
- The energy we spend to complain can be redirected to act for change. When we take responsibility, we get out of the victim mode and move on.
- The error repeated is a fault.
- The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most people’s frustrations and defeats.
- The excuses we make destroy the results we deserve
- The first proof of a man's incapacity for anything is his endeavouring to fix the stigma of failure upon others.
- The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found at last to be of our own producing.
- The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
- The longer we wait to deal with reality the bigger the price tag.
- The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
- The more you take responsibility for your past and present, the more you are able to create the future you seek.
- The most important thought I ever had was that of my individual responsibility to God.
- The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
- The only person who is going to give you security and the life you want is you.
- The only person you can control is YOU. So stop getting mad at people for not being who you want them to be.
- The only thing in your control is your effort. That’s all and that’s everything.
- The parent who sends his son out into the world uneducated, defrauds the community of a useful citizen, and bequeaths a nuisance.
- The practice of not blaming anyone else for your problems is the most underrated mental health hack.
- The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.
- The punishment suffered by the wise who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of bad men.
- The saddest failures in life are those that come from the not putting forth of power and will to succeed.
- The single most empowering thing you can do is take responsibility for yourself, 100% of the time.
- The stars do not doom you to failure. There is no destiny that scowls in your face and smiles at your neighbor. Your destiny... lies in the spot beneath your hat... Keep going and you will reach just where you belong.
- The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
- The tidal waves of tyranny always begin as tiny ripples of indifference.
- The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.