The secret ingredients to true happiness? Decisive optimism and personal responsibility.

[F]rom now on, the act of creating and circulating evidence of wrongdoing to more than a few people, even if they all work together, will be seen as a delayed but public act.

Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.

Geschichte lebt nicht, wenn man ihr keine Heimat im Bewusstsein gibt; sie ist eine Last, die kein freier Mensch zu tragen gezwungen werden kann.

I’ve always been one to share things. Particularly things like responsibility and blame.

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

Handle so, daß die Maxime deines Willens jederzeit zugleich als Prinzip einer allgemeinen Gesetzgebung gelten könne.

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism… but only through the direct responsibility of the individual

Karsky: I met your father last week. Are you still interested in hearing how he is doing?Hugo: No.Karsky: It is very probable that you will be responsible for his death.Hugo: It is virtually certain that...

Ich wünsche mir, dass sich unsere Gesellschaft tolerant, wertbewusst und vor allen Dingen in Liebe zur Freiheit entwickelt und nicht vergisst, dass die Freiheit der Erwachsenen Verantwortung heißt.

The story is about being loyal to the truth as a nation, that citizens of a democracy are collectively responsible for what their troops do in war, good or bad.

Power is responsibility. Don’t take advantage. Respect.

And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.

All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the...

Responsibility: Seeing something you don’t want to see.Not seeing something you do want to see.Hearing something you don’t want to hear.Not hearing something you do want to hear.Saying something you don’t want to say.Not saying...

Stop believing the false hope that “if it’s meant to be” it will happen. If that were true, everyone would be content, wealthy, fit and have great relationships. You must plan, act, persevere, make better...

An important decision I made was to resist playing the Blame Game. The day I realized that I am in charge of how I will approach problems in my life, that things will turn out...

The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.

She, too, spoke only when the queen or king addressed her first, but she looked searchingly at every supplicant, and her clear face said that she had opinions about everything she heard, and that it...

Contributing to clean air is everyone’s responsibility.

Decisions of character come from understanding that they are accountable to God only, not to family, spouses, religious leaders, corporations, public opinion or your own ego.

We have a responsibility to be aware of others.

To free a man from error is not to deprive him of anything but to give him something: for the knowledge that a thing is false is a piece of truth. No error is harmless:...

It is exclusively other people’s responsibility to please themselves.

Good for you and be proud of yourself because you have your priorities in order. Be proud of yourself if you are responsible, reliable, persistent, and take your job and education seriously.

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

Things are as they should be at this moment. When you accept that, you become responsible for everything you have and are. You then hold the power to change your future!

You cannot be responsible for some things that happen on earth. You may attempt to act, God alone will decide. Some things are mysteries!

Marriage is a responsibility, not a swimming pool you can jump into and then just go out of afterwards

We have ordered competent authorities to conduct a complete investigation to clearly determine responsibility and to hold accountable anyone proved to have fallen short in their duties or who were careless in providing safety.

We know what we should do. Age is no excuse. Do we go to others for permission or for discipline?

Throw your empty pop-corn tub in the trash and the entire cinema will be clean for the next patrons.

The fact that good people can be forced to do wrong doesn’t make them less good. But it also doesn’t make the wrong less wrong.

If someone had told Allie that she would commit a premeditated act of murder, she would not have believed it. She would have spouted off all the reasons how she could never be capable of...

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

The captaincy felt weird. I have not had this responsibility since I captained the under-20s (Australian team),

[The workers] were delighted and happy that the university was engaged and taking responsibility for working conditions on campus.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

To re-establish man at the heart of his destiny is, they claim, to repudiate all ethics. However, far from God’s absence authorizing all license, the contrary is the case, because man is abandoned on the...

There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. …Any man who says the world owes him a living is dishonest. The same God that made you and me...

The best words of wisdom that a parent can say to their child is “I Am proud of you”.

Remember how far you’ve come, and you won’t have to rely on a destiny for your future. It will come on your own.

Lack of communication has a way of clipping our wings, which keeps us from flying. When things are left unspoken, we forget that everyone is destined to share the sky together.

No,” Foyle roared. “Let them hear this. Let them hear everything.””You’re insane, man. You’ve handed a loaded gun to children.””Stop treating them like children and they’ll stop behaving like children. Who the hell are you...

The great souls distinguish with two things; their greater needs and their greater agony.

Love was indeed a big responsibility. One must use the word judiciously. One cannot love one day and take away love the next day. It is total caring.

We’re not responsible, he thought. This planet is a temporary affair. It’s whizzing with all kinds of other ones, a whole range of planetary stuff, toward a star in the Milky Way. On that kind...

The Orange Order must bear substantial responsibility for this. They publicly called people on to the streets. I think if you do that, you cannot then abdicate responsibility,

If man–if each one of us–abdicates his responsibilities with regard to values; if each one of us limits himself to leading a trivial existence in a technological civilization, with greater adaptation and increasing success as...

The author, then in the final stage as a candidate for Delta Force, was asked by the unit’s foreboding colonel what he thought of the evaluation’s Stress Week. He responded that he was waiting for...