Responsibility

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Charles Dickens

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The world we live in will be either better or worse depending on whether we become better or worse.

Paulo Coelho

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Plato

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

Martin Luther

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Groucho Marx

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Elie Wiesel

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Charles Dickens

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Eleanor Roosevelt

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

Epictetus

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Jim Rohn

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

Paulo Coelho

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Elbert Hubbard

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

Elie Wiesel

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

Bernard Baruch

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

Peter Drucker