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Quotations about responsibility

Freedom is only part of the story and half the truth, that is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplanted by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.

 - Victor E. Frankl

Tags:   freedom  liberty  responsibility  

Eleanor RooseveltOne's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

 - Eleanor Roosevelt

Tags:   choices  life  philosophy  responsibility  

J.K. RowlingThere is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

 - J.K. Rowling

Tags:   parents  responsibility  

Abraham LincolnYou cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

 - Abraham Lincoln

Tags:   help  responsibility  

Jim RohnYou must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

 - Jim Rohn

Tags:   change  control  responsibility  

Garry KasparovThere is no one that can share your responsibility. It is your responsibility you must carry it on and you must be responsible for your actions. At the end of the day we all are being challenged, sooner or later, by our destiny. And it's up to us to make all the difference in this life. If not you, who else?

 - Garry Kasparov

Tags:   challenges  destiny  responsibility  

Abdul KalamBe active! Take on responsibility! Work for the things you believe in. If you do not, you are surrendering your fate to others.

 - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Richard FeynmanYou have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.

 - Richard Feynman

John F. KennedyIn the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it -- and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

 - John F. Kennedy

Tags:   country  danger  freedom  responsibility  service  

Immanuel KantWhoever wills the end, wills also (so far as reason decides his conduct) the means in his power which are indispensably necessary thereto.

Wer den Zweck will, will (so fern die Vernunft auf seine Handlungen entscheidenden Einfluss hat), auch das dazu unentbehrlich nothwendige Mittel, das in seiner Gewalt ist.

 - Immanuel Kant

Tags:   conduct  morality  responsibility  

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

 - Frank Crane

Tags:   development  growth  responsibility  

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

 - Joan Didion

Tags:   character  respect  responsibility  

Dwight EisenhowerTo all the peoples of the world, I once more give expression to America's prayerful and continuing aspiration: We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedom will understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity; that the scourges of poverty, disease and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth, and that, in the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love.

 - Dwight Eisenhower

Tags:   freedom  love  peace  respect  responsibility  

Anne FrankIs discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: "What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews."

 - Anne Frank

Tags:   blame  discord  responsibility  war  

P.J. O'RourkeLiberals have invented whole college majors -- psychology, sociology, women's studies -- to prove that nothing is anybody's fault.

 - P.J. O'Rourke

Tags:   college  education  fault  responsibility  

Mark TwainGod made man, without man's consent, and made his nature, too; made it vicious instead of angelic, and then said, Be angelic, or I will punish you and destroy you. But no matter, God is responsible for everything man does, all the same; He can't get around that fact. There is only one Criminal, and it is not man.

 - Mark Twain

Tags:   creation  responsibility  

We must reject the idea that every time a law is broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

 - Ronald Reagan

Tags:   accountability  crime  laws  responsibility  victims  

Barack ObamaWe know that more police alone is not enough. Communities need to take responsibility for their own protection. We need to give young people who commit nonviolent crimes a chance to redeem themselves and provide practical pathways to redemption.

 - Barack Obama

Tags:   crime  police  responsibility