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“When you don't take responsibility, when you blame others, circumstances, fate or chance, you give away your power. When you take and retain full responsibility - even when others are wrong or the situation is genuinely unfair - you keep your life's reins in your own hands.”

Giving Hands Chance Responsibility Situation Fate Circumstances Blame Unfair Taking Responsibility Reins

Author:Jeff Olson

“We're professional athletes. People know who we are, and if there's some way we can help with a friend or someone in need, that's a responsibility we have. I really strongly believe that.”

People Ifs Knows Way Needs Believe Helping Responsibility Athlete Who We Are Professional Athlete

Author:Bobby Orr

“We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation, but ask the government to prevent panics. Now the only way to hold the government entirely responsible for conditions is to give up our liberty for a dictatorship. If we continue the more reasonable practice of managing our own affairs we must bear the burdens of our own mistakes. A free people cannot shift their responsibility for them to the government. Self-government means self-reliance.”

Source: Calvin Coolidge says: dispatches written by former-president Coolidge and syndicated to newspapers in 1930-1931 : gathered for issuance in book form on the one-hundredth anniversary of Mr. Coolidge's birth, 4 July 1972

“The ultimate priority of humanity should not be to savour the power given to us, but rather to account for the according responsibility.”

Should Humanity Given Responsibility Ultimate Accounts Priorities Savour

Author:Christian Harrison

“I live in a universe in which blame doesn't exist. I don't believe in being at fault; I believe in taking responsibility for your actions. If I do something wrong, I take responsibility for it.”

Ifs Believe Action Universe I Believe Responsibility Blame Faults Don't Believe I Believe In Taking Responsibility Take Responsibility For Your Actions

Author:Concha Buika

“It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.”

People Knows Should Long Responsibility Rights Couple Gay Married Fairs Standing Should Have Stable Gay Marriage Horrific Married Couples Rights And Responsibilities Gay Relationship

Author:Ian Mckellen

“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”

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Author:Sigmund Freud

“Practice of true community involves responsibilities and actions that do not come naturally to us.”

Action Community Responsibility Practice

Author:Jerry Bridges

“It is not the responsibility of the language to force good looking code, but the language should make good looking code possible.”

Should Language Force Responsibility Code Looking Good

Author:Yukihiro Matsumoto

“Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens, it's entirely your responsibility the entire time. I like that intensity.”

People Matter Happens Song Responsibility Fronts No Matter What Intensity

Author:Chris Cornell

“From the ethical point of view, no one can escape responsibility with the excuse that he is only an individual, on whom the fate of the world does not depend. Not only can this not be known objectively for certain, because it is always possible that it will depend precisely on the individual, but this kind of thinking is also made impossible by the very essence of ethics, by conscience and the sense of responsibility.”

Thinking World Kind Doe Made Certain Individual Views Responsibility Known Fate Impossible Depends Ethics Conscience Essence Excuse Point Of View Ethical Sense Of Responsibility

Author:Gyorgy Lukacs

“I am terribly glad to be alive; and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man and an American, with all the rights and privileges that those words connote; and most of all I am humble before the responsibilities that are also mine. For no right comes without a responsibility, and being born luckier than most of the world's millions, I am also born more obligated.”

Thinking Men World Enough Born Responsibility Millions Alive Rights Mines Proud Privilege Humble Wit Glad Be A Man Rights And Privileges Glad To Be Alive

Book:Stealing Glances: Three Interviews with Wallace Stegner

Source: Stealing Glances: Three Interviews with Wallace Stegner

“To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility.”

Mean Responsibility

Author:Florence Kelley

“And in an issue with this kind of concern to a committee that bears the oversight responsibility, I think you can see that we're very dismayed about it .”

Thinking Kind Responsibility Issues Bears Concern Committees Oversight Dismayed

Author:Dianne Feinstein

“The responsibility to nightmare is to wake up.”

Responsibility Wake Up Nightmare

Book:Images of Kin: New and Selected Poems

Source: Images of Kin: New and Selected Poems

“We don't pray for the land. We pray for the humans, all humans... starting with the president, Mohammed Morsi, and all officials, and for God to give everyone wisdom and responsibility to manage the affairs of this country and its people in true Egyptian spirit.”

People Giving Humans Country Wisdom Spirit President Responsibility Land Praying Starting Affair Manage Officials Egyptian

Author:Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria

“Dogs are more of a responsibility than kids - you can send a kid off to their grandparents or a nanny, but with a dog you can't do that.”

Kids Responsibility Dog Grandparent Nannies

Author:Jason Gann

“To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters.”

Needs Doe Matter Certain Responsibility Fields Particular Addresses Biology Competence Evaluate

Book:Challenges

Source: Challenges

“As the BBC approaches the final phase of decisions about its future, it will be important for those involved to be established in post and ready to take responsibility for implementation of the outcome.”

Important Decision Responsibility Ready Involved Approach Finals Posts Outcomes Phases Taking Responsibility Implementation

Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

“I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.”

Way Writing Trying Use Shows Certain Song Given Differences Responsibility Talking Fans Listening Radio Making A Difference Writing Songs

Author:Randy Owen

“Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture of greed and of flagrant social irresponsibility. Now as then, business has shed its collective responsibility for employees - just as government has for its citizens.”

Source: Sociopathic Society: A People's Sociology of the United States

“History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.”

Culture Challenges Responsibility Integrity Corporate Paramount

Author:Preet Bharara

“Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.”

Children Sometimes Forget Responsibility Filial Filial Piety Filial Duty

Author:Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

“In fact, since no one's been interested in my work, I took the responsibility recently to invest in my own work, so I'm producing a concert that was done at the Vision Festival in May.”

May Done Facts My Own Responsibility Vision Concerts Festivals

Author:Joseph Jarman

“Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of encouraging laws that are not in contradiction with the Commandments comes within the mission of the Church.”

Feels Christian Law Political Individual Church Responsibility Influence Fronts Duty Missions Contradiction Commandments Political Life

Author:Karl Lehmann

“Students who are interested in learning about the environment should not be dissuaded from doing so, but only if they have proved their proficiency in other basic courses, such as U.S. history. Until then, we need to focus on producing well-educated citizens steeped in their country's history and mindful of their civic responsibilities.”

Ifs Needs Should Wells Country Courses Responsibility Environment Focus Students Citizens Educated Civics Well Educated Proficiency Civic Responsibility

Author:George Nethercutt

“In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction.”

Culture Views Responsibility Creation Products Israel Heavy British Carrie Construction Anti Semitism Complicity

Author:Tom Paulin

“He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency.”

Firsts Term Responsibility Economy Successful Economic Customers Corporations Being Successful Ethical Framework Shareholders

Author:Lee R. Raymond

“The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business.”

Persons Responsibility

Author:Lee R. Raymond

“It's fun when you're winning and performing well, but it's also hard because now you get older, you got responsibilities.”

Wells Hard Winning Fun Responsibility Performing Performing Well

Author:Rau'shee Warren

“We have to start thinking of ourselves as citizens of the Internet, not just passive users. I don’t see how we can bring about change in our digital lives if we don’t take responsibility.”

Ifs Thinking Responsibility Internet Citizens Digital Users Passive Taking Responsibility

Author:Rebecca MacKinnon

“If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.”

Ifs Mean Persons Government Given Term Work Effort Responsibility Serious Office Golf University Clubs Agency Faculty Yield Given Up Quota Golf Clubs Dropouts Government Agencies

Book:The Recovery of Confidence

Source: The Recovery of Confidence

“Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert.”

Ifs Responsibility Accepting Audience Kings Expectations Tradition Weight Enormous Concerts Tangible Attending Crimson King Crimson

Author:Robert Fripp

“Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience. We don't transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better.”

“Do not ask for less responsibility to be free and relaxed-ask for more strength!”

Asks Responsibility Yoga Wellness Relaxed

Author:Sheng-yen

“It's feeling the sense of responsibility, the sense of ownership, to step in, to try to solve any problem - and the humility to step back and embrace the better ideas of others. Your end goal, is what can we do together to problem-solve. I've contributed my piece, and then I step back.”

Trying Ideas Ends Feelings Problem Together Goal Responsibility Steps Pieces Humility Embrace Solve Teamwork Ownership Sense Of Responsibility

Author:Laszlo Bock

“The perpetuators of the Buddha dharma have a moral responsibility to the rest of humanity to be at the forefront of the change away from blood-letting and killing, and not surreptitiously fostering it because of their lack of will to change their habits or mode of thinking concerning the animal kingdom.”

Thinking Humanity Animal Responsibility Moral Blood Habit Killing Kingdoms Buddhist Dharma Moral Responsibility Fostering Animal Kingdom

Book:Karma and the Rebirth of Consciousness

Source: Karma and the Rebirth of Consciousness

“I was letting go and undoing the hell I had created. By squaring all with love, trying to love rather than trying to be loved, and by taking responsibility for all that was happening to me; finding my subconscious thought and correcting it, I became freer and freer, happier and happier.”

Trying Responsibility Hell Letting Go Findings Happenings Subconscious Taking Responsibility Correcting Undoing

Author:Lester Levenson

“Finding and creating your life's work, even if it is entirely different from what you have done most of your life, will bring you more happiness and health than any other action you can take. If your primary responsibility in life is being true to yourself, that can only be accomplished by carrying out what you are called to do - your unique and special vocation...Your life's work involves doing what you love and loving what you do.”

“A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have more responsibility, rather than less.”

People Ifs Knows Use Science Found Responsibility Knowledge Scientist

Author:C.P. Snow

“Healing comes from taking responsibility: to realize that it is you - and no one else - that creates your thoughts, your feelings, and your actions.”

Feelings Action Happiness Success Realizing Healing Responsibility Creating Responsible Abundance Taking Responsibility Surgeons

Book:Daring to Be Yourself

Source: Daring to Be Yourself

“When enough women realize that birth is a time of great opportunity to get in touch with their true power, and when they are willing to assume responsibility for this, we will reclaim the power of birth and help move technology where it belongs-in the service of birthing women, not their master.”

“Through the plan of prayer, God actually is inviting redeemed man into full partnership with Him; not in making the divine decisions, but in implementing those decisions in the affairs of humankind. Independently and of His own will, God makes the decisions governing the affairs of earth. The responsibility and authority for the enforcement and administration of those decisions, He has place upon the shoulders of the church.”

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Author:Paul Billheimer

“The moment you accept responsibility for EVERYTHING in your life, is the moment you gain the power to change ANYTHING in your life.”

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Author:Hal Elrod

“The sad fact is that we're not educated to be aware and therefore able to question the reality created by our thinking. We don't realize that we must take responsibility for our thoughts to find out if they are really true, and then set aside or at least acknowledge those that are simply opinion and bias. We don't recognize that most thoughts are ultimately judgments, and that the truth of any judgment is how that judgment makes us feel.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Facts Reality Able Realizing Responsibility Opinion Judgment Educated Acknowledge Bias Our Thoughts Taking Responsibility Really True

Book:Inside-Out Healing

Source: Inside-Out Healing

“It's true that everything happens for a reason, but it is always our responsibility to choose the reasons.”

Inspirational Reason Happens Responsibility Things Happen Everything Happens For A Reason Happens For A Reason

Author:Hal Elrod

“How we live our lives gives those we love permission to do the same. That is a power and a responsibility that we can never take lightly.”

Inspirational Giving Responsibility Our Lives Permission Those We Love

Author:Hal Elrod

“It is often said that everything happens for a reason, but you must embrace the perspective that it's never a reason that is predetermined or out of your control. It is always your responsibility to choose the most empowering reasons for the occurrences of your life.”

Said Reason Happens Responsibility Perspective Wake Up Embrace Things Happen Empowering Everything Happens For A Reason Happens For A Reason Predetermined Waking Up Early

Author:Hal Elrod

“It is a shame that so many leaders spend their time pondering their rights as leaders instead of their awesome responsibilities as leaders.”

Responsibility Leader Rights Shame Accountability Pondering

Book:The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership

Source: The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership

“My government currently runs things only because the people 'allow' them to run things. It is my responsibility that I do everything I can to keep tabs on my government, keep them honest and make sure that they always act for the good of the people. They must be reminded that they hold no power over the people that the people do not wish for them to hold. If the government begins working in a way that the people don't agree with, they must be made to know that we will rip it to its very foundations and replace it with something that does.”

People Ifs Knows Way Doe Made I Can Government Running Politics Wish Responsibility Honest Agree Foundation Rip

Author:Derek R. Audette