Responsibility quotes and words of wisdom

"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving."
Albert Einstein


"As novices, we think we"re entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people."
Rose Lane


"Chiefly the mold of a man?s fortune is in his own hands."
Francis Bacon


"Every right has its responsibilities. Like the right itself, these responsibilities stem from no man-made law, but from the very nature of man and society. The security, progress and welfare of one group is measured finally in the security, progress and welfare of all mankind."
Lewis Schwellenbach


"If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams."
Les Brown


"In dreams begin responsibility."
William Butler Yeats


"Life always gets harder toward the summit ? the cold increases, responsibility increases."
Friedrich Nietzsche


"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will ? his personal responsibility."
Dr. Albert Schweitzer


"Not only are you what you think you are, more so; what you think, you are."



"Responsibility educates."
Wendell Phillips


"Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us man hood or womanhood fibre."
Dr. Frank Crane


"The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them."
Walter S. Robertson


"The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there"s only one other choice."
Doug Larson


"The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world."
Harry S. Truman


"We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible."
Allan Massie


"We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities."
Bill Maher


"You can delegate authority, but not responsibility."
Stephen W. Comiskey


"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
Abraham Lincoln


"You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don"t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together."
Henry Ford


Interesting Quotes

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought---particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.Woody Allen - US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )

I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.Sir Laurence Olivier