#responsibility

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. ↗

— Joan Didion

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But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it. ↗

— Esther Dyson

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I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

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War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life. ↗

— Bob Ehrlich

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I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

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I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers. ↗

— Gianni Versace

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The trouble is that right now I want to put as much work into football as I can. It's very important for me to get off to a good start. By the same token, I feel a responsibility to handle the media and those sort of things. ↗

— Doug Flutie

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Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

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Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility. ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

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