Always remember: When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

Wir lernen aus unserer eigenen Geschichte, wozu der Mensch fähig ist. Deshalb dürfen wir uns nicht einbilden, wir seien nun als Menschen anders und besser geworden. Es gibt keine endgültig errungene moralische Vollkommenheit – für...

Quit hating and trying be like the next man. Get on your own grind & be better than the next man, whether you gotta hustle, work a job or whatever just do you.

Authenticity is not a metaphysically distinctive way of being human; it is just a way of taking responsibility for what one has already been given.

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...

Art is by nature aristocratic, and naturally selective in its effect on the audience. For even in its ‘collective’ manifestations, like theatre or cinema, its effect is bound up with the intimate emotions of each...

We have within us the power to choose how we respond to a hurtful situation. We cannot control the actions of others, but we can control how we will respond. As we understand our power...

If your situtation is the fault of anything or anyone else…there is very little hope and absolutely zero power over your own life.”Responsibility is about hope and control. And…who doesn’t want hope for a greater...

Don’t be sorry. Be good. Be right. Be a hero.

There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there – good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market...

The real American ideal of cool which is building businesses, protecting freedom at home and abroad, taking responsibility for your actions, and leaving other people alone to live as they damn well please.

I should try to pass along the good that has happened to me. That’s my responsibility as being part of this planet.

…the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.””…a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.

I guess what I’m sayin’ is, if you want to give Jules a job, be very careful.””Why be careful?” Marnes asked.Marck gazed up at the confusion of pipes and wires overhead.”‘Cause she’ll damn well do...

There is nothing I can do to ever make up for that kick, … But that happened. I take responsibility for that. In the future there are going to be opportunities, and I look forward...

To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn’t hear, was an act so cold, so careless, it refused forgiveness.

The company’s responsibility to the families was to tell them what we knew, not what we didn’t know or what we believed.

Cultural wisdom says ‘Don’t quit your day job.’ Yet I think these desires represent our psyche’s stretch toward wholeness. And to be whole, as many religious tranditions teach, is to make manifest a unique face...

You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I must look after you. It is my duty.””If you wish to suffer, you...

That’s my responsibility and obviously we wanted to be much more productive than we were in the playoffs. That’ll be one of the things we look hard at.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based...

no body at home”, and the victim is the resultat of these two roles. It is always easier to follow a group without awareness, than to follow your own heart, to trust your own intelligence,...

For certain you can be helped, should you accept it. But as far as being made…no one can do that. This occurred on the day you were born. An earth day is not a birth...

We believe it’s our responsibility to prevent that from happening.

I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.

Based on this finding on fabricated data, it is difficult for Professor Hwang not to avoid taking major responsibility.

I think a director does have a huge responsibility to draw strands together, and to seek extension and development of his or her own ideas.

No snowflake in an avalanch ever feels responsible.

Some victims do need to “blame” themselves and take responsibility.

We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.

I find something repulsive about the idea of vicarious redemption. I would not throw my numberless sins onto a scapegoat and expect them to pass from me; we rightly sneer at the barbaric societies that...

I feel I owe you another explanation Harry,” said Dumbledore hesitantly. “You may, perhaps, wondered why I never chose you as a prefect? I must confess…that I rather thought…you had enough responsibility to be going...

Just like in the eye of the storm there is always comfort within the chaos. Becoming aware of this however, is your responsibility.

If the future generation has a difficult life, if they engage in war or commit crime it’s not their fault, it’s our fault because we fail to educate them. So responsibility resides on me, on...

In my father’s last letter he said that the world is run by those willing to take the responsibility for the running of it. If it is life that you feel you are missing I...

Powerlessness implies inactivity, like an appliance that is not plugged into its electrical current. Empowerment is about plugging into responsible choices and then acting upon them to your fullest capacity.

Duty is a good thing, a calling without which no civilization can survive, but it is also a weight and chain that sometimes seems sure to sink you to the airless bottom of a dark...

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

He turned to her – his gesture a superb compound of relief, remorse, passionate candour and bewilderment touched with curiosity; confidence and perfect penitence. Against which Scylla had to brace herself. Against such bravura how...

For a while parents seemed to forget that their responsibility as parents did not cease when the child turned on the radio; rather it increases. In the August, 1938, issue of Your Life, Mary Linton...

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.[News conference, April 21 1961]

It didn’t matter he was brilliant and dedicated and good. He was a child. He was young.No he isn’t, thought Ender. Small, yes. Bur Bean has been through a battle with a whole army depending...

Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amount of privilege and therefore we have a huge amount of responsibility. We live in free societies where we are not...

Your pain is not prescribed by your creator, He is the healer thus not giver of misery.We are victims of others; lay the blame where it belongs.Mankind is responsible for its environment and culture, the...

…I know how she must have felt. Pressure to be in charge of the world. So much responsibility. The whole world on her…to let go and just give herself to you, to give up to...

Every secret of life I know, I learned at my grandfather’s knee.

Most men are blinded by the words “Bad Bitches” and end settling for less!

Everything thing I have ever achieved in life I have accomplished on my own – I’ve earned it – even the bad stuff.