Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.

-Noam Chomsky

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They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

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A man carries his success or his failure with him, it does not depend on outside conditions.

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I feel the responsibility of the occasion. Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.

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The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them.

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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

JeanPaul Sartre

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

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No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

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Nadine Gordimer

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

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

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To let oneself be bound by a duty from the moment you see it approaching is part of the integrity that alone justifies responsibility.

Dag Hammarskjšld

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

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We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

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Frank Crane

If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way.

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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.

Charles Caleb Colton

I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my own hands.

Darius Ogden Mills

Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than what he ought to expect from them.

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It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

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Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

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Be more aware of responsibility than you are of your rights.

Source Unknown

The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility.

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The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

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I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln

I am only one, But still I am one.I cannot do everything,But still I can do something;And because I cannot do everythingI will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
Edward Everett Hale

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
William Ellery Channing

Responsibility is the price of greatness.
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Why did the Lord give use so much quickness unless it was to avoid responsibility?
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Them as can do has to do for them as cant. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Cyril Connolly

In dreams begin responsibility.
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To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
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Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
Les Brown

Its time to care its time to take responsibility its time to lead its time for a change its time to be true to our greatest self its time to stop blaming others.
Steve Maraboli

Everyones worried about stopping terrorism. Well theres really an easy way Stop participating in it.
Noam Chomsky

What is an anarchist One who choosing accepts the responsibility of choice.
Ursula K. Le Guin

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
John Enoch Powell

Not responding is a responsewe are equally responsible for what we dont do. In the case of animal slaughter to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.
Les Brown

Each is responsible for his own actions.
H. L. Hunt

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

This I choose to do. If there is a price this I choose to pay. If it is my death then I choose to die. Where this takes me there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.
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Moli

A free man is a jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.
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Im not much but Im all I have.
Philip K. Dick

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.
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Alexander Graham Bell

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Douglas Adams

We have a Bill of rights. What we need is a Bill of responsibilities.
Bill Maher

Responsibility is the possibility of opportunity culminating in inevitable fulfillment.
Sri Chinmoy

Choice of attention to pay attention to this and ignore that is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
W. H. Auden

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

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Tom Stoppard

You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own salvation.
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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.
Mahatma Gandhi

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Gordon B. Hinckley

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Victor Frankl

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No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.
Bertolt Brecht

The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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