Quotes: responsibility
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If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
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A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.
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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.
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Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual
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As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.
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Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
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The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
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'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.
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A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten".
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A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.
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A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
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A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.
Source: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 58 min 56 sec
