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- Nov 07, 2020
Responsibility Quotes
What it means to own your part.
This set looks at responsibility as something personal rather than shared, whether that means revising a script until it works or declining to answer for anyone else's choices. It connects to the themes explored in our Decision quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't convince you to put the drink down if you're an alcoholic, you have to want to do that. I can't convince you to stop eating the cookies when you're a diabetic. You have to do that. And that takes responsibility.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are the first of anything, there is a bigger responsibility put on you.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a multipolar world, there must be more powers capable of taking responsibility, the U.S. and Europe must be able to unite to achieve peace in the Middle East.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether or not one has won the Nobel Prize, each of us living in contact with our fellowmen feels a joint responsibility for all forms of suffering, both physical and moral.
- Dragging
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- Nov 07, 2020
We will not be thanked by anyone for dragging the country out of the E.U. on a deal for which the public have shown no enthusiasm. For MPs that would be an abdication of responsibility.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.
- Idiot
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I hold a gun, I know how to be sensible about it. I'm not holding it to wild out or just to shoot somebody because I'm mad at him. There's responsibility in buying that gun, and part of it is dealing with it like a man, and not dealing with it like an idiot, and getting behind iron bars for unnecessary reasons.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
All your acts affect all the people, people that you don't even know. So we have to live with responsibility. We have to live knowing that we're not the only ones here and you're affecting somebody else always.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020