Thoughts About Responsibility

Personal Responsibility
99% of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." -George Washington Carver

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The price of greatness is responsibility.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. -- Stephen Covey

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Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the only thing in the world that develops us, gives our manhood or womanhood fiber. Frank Crane

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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible. Abraham Heschel

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The game is my life. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace. Michael Jordan

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

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Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities. - John F. Kennedy

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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

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We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility. Newton Minow, chairman of the FCC

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. Anthony Robbins

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It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts. -- Jim Rohn

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I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility. Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965) French theologian, musician, medical missionary

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The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

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The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man. --Roy L. Smith

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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Responsibility is the price of greatness. Churchill

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The object of teaching personal responsibility is to have the student substitute for the question Whos to blame? the question What needs to be done? Nathaniel Branden

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Teachers who care accept no excuses. William Glasser

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I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of our every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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You are responsible for the eventual outcome of your life. You have been given the greatest power in the world--the power to choose. Denis Waitley

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The more we practice the habit of acting from a position of responsibility, the more effective we become as human beings, and the more successful we become as managers of our lives. Joyce Chapman