Quotations in alphabetical order by author Knowledge is not a loose-leaf notebook of facts. Above all, it is a responsibility for the integrity of what we are, primarily of what we are as ethical creatures. Jacob Bronowski (1908 - 1974) English historian, mathematician
99% of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." -- George Washington Carver
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. -- Stephen Covey
Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the only thing
in the world that develops us, gives our manhood or womanhood fiber.
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. - Erik H. Erikson Responsibility...is...the ability to fulfill one's needs and to do so in a way that does not deprive others of the ability to fulfill their needs. Dr. William Glasser The teaching of responsibility is the most important task of all higher animals, man most certainly included. Dr. William Glasser In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible. - Abraham Heschel In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. Lee Iacocca The game is my life. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace. Michael Jordan Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs. Erica Jong Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. - Erica Jong Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities. - John F. Kennedy Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than raising of the next generation. C. Everett Koop (1908 - 1974) English historian, mathematician
In dreams begins responsibility. Edna O'Brien Responsibility educates. Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. Anthony Robbins Learning is facilitated when the student participates responsibly in the learning process. Carl Rogers It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts. -- Jim Rohn I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.- Jean-Paul Sartre Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment,
and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility. Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. George Bernard Shaw The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day
you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top. The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man. --Roy L. Smith To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery 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. A. J. Toynbee Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.- Brian Tracy The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. Denis Waitley, US motivational speaker Be responsible and don't sacrifice your heart's deepest goals & dreams for the shallow, ephemeral pleasure of the moment. L Walkup My philosophy is that not only are you responsible
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Journal Assignment: Read the above quotes. Then copy the one or two quotes that move you or speak the loudest to you. Next journal about why you selected that particular quote. Dare you make up your own quote? (Also, I'm looking for more quotes on responsibility. When you run across some, please email them to me. Thank you . Lnwalkup@aol.com )
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