You must create your own world.
I am responsible for my world.

Louise Nelson
   

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience
like individual responsibility. . . No matter how much women prefer to lean,
to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do so,
they must make the voyage of life alone, and for safety in an emergency
must know the law of navigation.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

      

Becoming responsible adults is no longer a matter of whether children
hang up their pajamas or put dirty towels in the hamper, but
whether they care about themselves and others--and whether
they see everyday chores as related to how we treat this planet.

Eda Leshan
  
People who become conscious of the responsibility they bear toward
a human being who affectionately waits for them, or to an unfinished
work, will never be able to throw away their lives. They know the "why"
for their existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how."

Victor Frankl


The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill

   

Each of us has a responsibility for being alive:  one responsibility to
creation, of which we are a part, another to the creator a debt
we repay by trying to extend our areas of comprehension.

Maya Angelou
   

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense
of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

Helen Keller
   
   
   

Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries
or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a
particular job. It lies with each of us individually. Peace, for
example, starts within each one of us. When we have inner
peace, we can be at peace with those around us.

The Dalai Lama
   

I am responsible.  Although I may
not be able to prevent the worst
from happening, I am responsible
for my attitude toward the
inevitable misfortunes that
darken life.  Bad things do
happen; how I respond to
them defines my character.

Walter Anderson

   

For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed;
the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does
not cease to grind down rock.  Generations do not cease to be born,
and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses
they have.  The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other,
and children cling to us.  The moment we cease to hold each other,
the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

James Baldwin
   

   

Few things help individuals more than
to place responsibility upon them, and
to let them know that you trust them.

Booker T. Washington
Remember always that you not only have
the right to be an individual, you have
an obligation to be one.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If people concentrated on their responsibilities,
others would have their rights.

Stuart Briscoe
   
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
   

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground,
put some responsibility on their shoulders.

Abigail Van Buren
    

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

Joan Didion
    

    
I believe that every right implies a responsibility;
every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
    

I don't see the point of being a human being if you're not going
to be responsible to your fellow human beings.  Selfishness
thefts away the human and reduces you to just a being.

Candea Core-Starke
   

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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.

Albert Ellis
   
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.

Ken Keyes, Jr.
   

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past,
but by the responsibility for our future.

George Bernard Shaw
   
   

To be responsible has nothing to do with others.  And yet it is deeply engraved into
your minds that you are responsible for others and that others are responsible for
you.  It is the major factor operating in your relationships.  You are responsible for
others.  You have to fulfill their expectations.  You are guilty if you fail.  You are to
blame.  It's your fault.  You suffer from guilt, blame, resentment and the heavy
burden of responsibility as a direct result of accepting responsibility for others.
All you have to do is declare yourself not responsible for others and these feelings
are dissolved immediately.  Then why will you not do it?  Because you cannot declare
yourself free of responsibility for others without declaring others
free of responsibility for you.

Leonard Jacobson
   
   
People need responsibility.  They resist assuming it,
but they cannot get along without it.

John Steinbeck
   

Duties are what make life most worth living.
Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.

Marlene Dietrich
   
   

  

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