Responsibility

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Napoleon Hill

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Edmund Burke

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Mark Twain

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Ayn Rand

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

John C. Maxwell

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

John Lennon

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

Ralph Nader

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

Ronald Reagan

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

Abigail Van Buren

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Elbert Hubbard

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

John Adams

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

Maya Angelou

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Thomas Paine

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Saint Augustine

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Peter Drucker

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Albert Einstein

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

Thomas Jefferson

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle