#responsibility

People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#fate #firmness #having #love #make

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#changing #choices #conditions #exist #life

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#gifts #give #greatest #greatest gifts #independence

Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more. ↗

— Jody Watley

#also #appreciating #been #even #flower

It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#always #bulk #chores #doing #even

My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility. ↗

— Chelsea Clinton

#approach #critically #me #parents #responsibility

Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed. ↗

— Peter Coyote

#any #argument #begin #going #half

I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility. ↗

— Ted Cruz

#begging #community #conservative #conservative values #faith

Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#extraordinary #going #great #heads #i

The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#european #model #obliterate #personal #personal responsibility