80 quotes
“In dreams begins responsibility.”
— William Butler Yeats
“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself”
— Albert Camus
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
— Aristotle
“An animal has its being in its world but the human being stands in the world”
— Martin Buber
“Freedom comes from responsibility.”
— Charles de Gaulle
“When we realize that our pain is not our fault but it is our responsibility to heal it everything changes”
— Gabor Mate
“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”
— Hannah Arendt
“In a free society some are guilty but all are responsible”
— Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
“Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.”
— Wendell Berry
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
— Jane Goodall
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Action springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility and faith creates that readiness”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction”
— John Stuart Mill
“Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you”
“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it is always your choice.”
— Wayne Dyer
“If not us, who? If not now, when?”
— John F. Kennedy
“The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves”
— William Shakespeare
“The face of the other calls me to justice”
— Emmanuel Levinas
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”
— Unknown
“Rich people believe I create my life. Poor people believe life happens to me.”
— T. Harv Eker
“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy and after all our most pleasing responsibility.”
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self.”
— Aldous Huxley
“Every thought you produce anything you say any action you do it bears your signature.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
— Harriet Tubman
“The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.”
— Joel Brown
“The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Liberty means responsibility that is why most men dread it”
“To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.”
— Andre Malraux
“Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself”
“Action springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility”
— Old Play (epigraph used by William Butler Yeats)
“When you think everything is someone elses fault you will suffer a lot”
— Dalai Lama
“Man is condemned to be free because once thrown into the world he is responsible for everything he does”
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”
— Khalil Gibran
“The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves.”
“If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.”
— Francis Bacon
“Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it.”
“Each player must accept the cards life deals him but once they are in hand he alone must decide how to play them”
— Voltaire
“Action springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility.”
“I am not a product of my circumstances I am a product of my decisions”
— Stephen Covey
“A sword never kills anybody it is a tool in the killers hand”
— Seneca
“The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son.”
— Ezekiel
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
— Gautama Buddha
“Act so that the effects of your action are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.”
— Hans Jonas
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity”
— Kahlil Gibran
“Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.”
— Charles Dickens
“We must cultivate our garden.”
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
— Buddha
“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”
“Things do not change; we change.”
— Thoreau
“The future of fashion is about responsible design and learning from every failure along the way”
— Stella McCartney
“How people treat you is their karma how you react is yours”
“In dreams begin responsibilities.”
— W.B. Yeats
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
— Winston Churchill
“Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them and to let them know that you trust them within the family.”
— Booker T. Washington
“We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are and what we become through time”
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
“To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open.”
— Jordan Peterson
“Each person in a family must live their life as a model for others.”
— Rosa Parks
“Every thought you produce anything you say any action you do it bears your signature”
“The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.”
— Andrew Carnegie
“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do”
“For the world is in a bad state but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.”
— Viktor Frankl
“Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.”
— Elie Wiesel
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