RESPONSIBILITY QUOTES
“Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.”
― Roy T. Bennet
“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
― Alan Watts
“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
― Jacques Derrida
“If you hang out with chickens, you’re going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you’re going to fly.”
― Steve Maraboli
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
― Winston Churchill
“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.”
― Noam Chomsky
“To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.”
― Patrick Ness
“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”
― Joan Didion
“Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.”
― Noam Chomsky
“The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.”
― Steve Maraboli
“Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done. ”
― Hubert Selby Jr
“The function of freedom is to free someone else.”
― Toni Morrison
“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
― George Bernard Shaw
“Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.”
― tom robbins
“Them as can do has to do for them as can’t. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.”
― Terry Pratchett
“Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.”
― Criss Jami
“Choices may be unbelievably hard but they’re never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that’s not how a person with integrity acts.”
― Patrick Ness
“What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin
“The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.”
― John Lennon
“It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?”
― Warren Ellis
“The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.”
― Paulo Coelho
“And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“There are no innocent bystanders … what are they doing there in the first place?”
― William S. Burroughs
“I’m convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.”
― Brandon Sanderson
“Not responding is a response–we are equally responsible for what we don’t do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer
“It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly.”
― Reginald Rose
“…the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.”
― Wendell Berry
“I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.”
― Ann Richards
“Your life begins to change the day you take responsibility for it.”
― Steve Maraboli
“We are free to choose our paths, but we can’t choose the consequences that come with them.”
― Sean Covey
“By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn’t doing it.”
― Lev Grossman
“I don’t have a ‘side’—I’m responsible for what I say and nothing else.”
― Glenn Greenwald
“Feel what it’s like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you’ll forever think twice before wasting food.”
― Criss Jami
“If you can do nothing else, do whatever is in your power to make the people in your life feel completely unashamed of who they are.”
― Sam Killermann
“Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.”
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah
“As for the journey of life; at some point you will realize that YOU are the driver and you will drive!”
― Steve Maraboli,
“The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.”
― Jon Ronson
“Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.”
― Thomas Stephen Szasz
“Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.”
― Kevin Powers
“The ‘ pleasure’ of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.”
― Ayn Rand
“Guilt—if there was any guilt—spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything…. Perhaps at some point in time, at some spot in the world, a moment of responsibility existed.”
― Philip K. Dick
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