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“It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.”

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Book:Sophocles

Source: Sophocles

“I think of veganism humbly and holistically. It's about taking personal responsibility in a world so full of needless suffering. It's challenging one's self to open one's eyes and question society's assumptions and habits. It's about critical thinking and compassion and how we would like to see the world evolve.”

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Author:Michael Greger

“But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets the "M" disease. Mediocrity. Anybody in the place can be a carrier. By the same token, every individual can carry the cure: the ethics of excellence.”

“Any real accomplishment in the world reflects the efforts of a lot of people. . . . For an individual to claim personal responsibility was the height of arrogance.”

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Author:John J. Gilligan

“Choose the mountain you want to climb: don't pay attention to what other people say, such as "that one's more beautiful" or "this one's easier". You'll be spending lots of energy and enthusiasm to reach your objective, so you're the only one responsible and you should be sure of what you're doing.”

“Don't let others define you. Don't let the past confine you. Take charge of your life with confidence and determination and there are no limits on what you can do or be.”

“The vision of the anointed is one in which ills as poverty, irresponsible sex, and crime derive primarily from 'society,' rather than from individual choices and behavior. To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by 'society'.”

Source: The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

“I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.”

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Book:God's Message for Each Day: Wisdom from the Word of God

Source: God's Message for Each Day: Wisdom from the Word of God

“Victimization status is the modern promised land of absolution from personal responsibility.”

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Book:How Could You Do That?!: Abdication of Character, Courage, Consci

Source: How Could You Do That?!: Abdication of Character, Courage, Consci

“If you want to be really successful, and I know you do, then you will have to give up blaming and complaining and take total responsibility for your life -- that means all your results, both your successes and your failures. That is the prerequisite for creating a life of success.”

“In our search for more, we have blinded ourselves to our personal responsibility for challenging these absurdities. A resource-based society considers us all equal shareholders of Earth. We are responsible both for the planet and for our relationship with each other.”

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Author:Jacque Fresco

“There is nothing wrong with underlining personal agency, but there is something unfair about using personal responsibility as a basis for assigning blame while simultaneously denying those who are being blamed the opportunity to exert agency in their lives”

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Book:Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues

Source: Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues

“In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.”

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Author:Jonathan Krohn

“Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is founded in Judeo-Christian values that promotes individualism, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to family, charity.”

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Author:Jim DeMint

“You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.”

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Author:Ken Keyes Jr.

“We all have a moral obligation to leave this world a better place than the world that we've found.”

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Author:Tim McIlrath

“Together as a nation, we have the obligation to put sunshine into the hearts of our little ones. They are our precious possessions. They deserve what happiness life can offer.”

Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

“Until a person takes responsibility for where he is, there is no basis for moving on. The bad news is that the past was in your hands, but the good news is that the future, my friend, is also in your hands.”

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Book:The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success

Source: The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success

“My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way”

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Author:Ali Shariati

“When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.”

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Author:George O'Neil

“Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you.”

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Author:Jim Rohn

“The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.”

“Using awareness, personal responsibility and inner work to review our unskillful or frightened reactions, we become more adept at turning habitual reactions to balanced responses. These moments are very exciting and gratifying.”

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Author:John Earle

“Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde

“But in Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility.”

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Author:Melissa Bean

“Geoff Nelder's ARIA has the right stuff. He makes us ask the most important question in science fiction-the one about the true limits of personal responsibility.”

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Author:Brad Linaweaver

“Each of us must come to care about everyone else's children. We must recognize that the welfare of our children and grandchildren is intimately linked to the welfare of all other people's children. After all, when one of our children needs lifesaving surgery, someone else's child will perform it. If one of our children is threatened or harmed by violence, someone else's child will be responsible for the violent act. The good life for our own children can be secured only if a good life is also secured for all other people's children.”

“What you do comes from what you think.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.”

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Book:Managing for the Future

Source: Managing for the Future

“A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.”

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Author:Benjamin Carson

“It is not enough to behave reverently; we must feel in our hearts reverence for our Heavenly Father and our Lord, Jesus Christ. Reverence flows from our admiration and respect for Deity. It is something we feel inside our hearts no matter what is going on around us. It is also a personal responsibility. We cannot blame others for disturbing our reverent attitudes.”

“Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.”

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Author:Yehuda Berg

“The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.”

Source: You learn by living

“...the core values that underpin sustainable development - interdependence, empathy, equity, personal responsibility and intergenerational justice - are the only foundation upon which any viable vision of a better world can possibly be constructed”

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Book:Capitalism as If the World Matters

Source: Capitalism as If the World Matters

“Blessed is the person who sees the need, recognizes the responsibility, and actively becomes the answer.”

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Author:William Arthur Ward

“Education is the best way to train ourselves that we will secure our own well-being by concerning ourselves with others. It is possible to create a better world, a more compassionate, more peaceful world, which is not only in everyone’s interest, but is everyone’s responsibility to achieve.”

“Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have shown to them.”

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Author:Maya Angelou

“We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.”

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Book:The Quotable Oswald Chambers

Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers

“The call now is for each of us to ask ourselves: are we doing all we can to help build the country of our dreams?”

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Author:Nelson Mandela

“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.”

“Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.”

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Book:Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

“It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come.”

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Author:Maya Angelou

“One of the first things successful people realize is the old adage, “If it is to be, it is up to me.” That is, for you, the fact that your success and your course is up to you. This doesn’t mean that you do it all alone. It simply means that you take responsibility for your life and your career.”

“Your paycheck is not your employer's responsibility, it's your responsibility. Your employer has no control over your value, but you do.”

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Author:Jim Rohn

“We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.”

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Author:Bob Ehrlich

“Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can't change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing”

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Author:Jim Rohn

“A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is must reading for anyone with an interest in the enduring effects of the Vietnam War, the subject of crime in our streets, and the issue of personal responsibility in a harsh, chaotic world.”

“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.”

“Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.”

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Author:Billy Corgan

“The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.”

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Author:Jacques Delors

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