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But the answer isn't just to intimidate people into consuming more 'serious' news; it is to push so-called serious outlets into learning to present important information in ways that can properly engage audiences. It is too easy to claim that serious things must be, and can almost afford to be, a bit boring. The challenge is to transcend the current dichotomy between those outlets that offer thoughtful but impotent instruction on the one hand and those that provide sensationalism stripped of responsibility on the other.
— Alain de Botton, The News: A User's Manual
The people who blame everything and every body else for their lack of success, tended to continue to have a lack of success. Your Proactive, problem solving minded, assertive and responsible approach is going to carry you much further than whining, blaming, pointing fingers and justifying your failures.
— Loren Weisman
Over the course of the millennia, all these multitudes of ancestors, generation upon generation, have come down to this moment in time—to give birth to you. There has never been, nor will ever be, another like you. You have been given a tremendous responsibility. You carry the hopes and dreams of all those who have gone before. Hopes and dreams for a better world. What will you do with your time on this Earth? How will you contribute to the ongoing story of humankind?
— Laurence Overmire, One Immigrant's Legacy: The Overmyer Family in America, 1751-2009: A Biographical Record of Revolutionary War Veteran Capt. John George Overmire and His Descendants
Don’t be so caught up in the noble cause of responsibility that you lose your passion for who you are living for.
— Shannon L. Alder
To re-establish man at the heart of his destiny is, they claim, to repudiate all ethics. However, far from God's absence authorizing all license, the contrary is the case, because man is abandoned on the earth, because his acts are definitive, absolute engagements. He bears the responsibility for a world which is not the work of a strange power, but of himself, where his defeats are inscribed, & his victories as well.
— Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity
To the right person you will BE everything.
— Rob Liano
A life was owned by the person who lived it, he believed. What happened didn't always happen because you wanted it to, but what you made of it was your responsibility.
— Howard Jacobson, J
When abstinence curricula contain information about sexual abuse or assault (though they often don't), the message is similar: The onus of preventing sexual assault is on girls, not on men.
— Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
Some people grow under responsibility
—  others swell.
Art is by nature aristocratic, and naturally selective in its effect on the audience. For even in its 'collective' manifestations, like theatre or cinema, its effect is bound up with the intimate emotions of each person who comes into contact with a work. The more the individual is traumatised and gripped by these emotions, the more significant a place will the work have in his experience.The aristocratic nature of art, however does not in any way absolve the artist of his responsibility to his public and even, if you like, more broadly, to people in general. On the contrary, because of his special awareness of his time and of the world in which he lives, the artist becomes the voice of those who cannot formulate or express their view of reality. In that sense the artist is indeed vox populi. That is why he is called to serve his own talent, which means serving his people.
— Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time
He who knows more is more responsible.
— Alireza Salehi Nejad
The artistic temperament is too often only an alibi for lack of responsibility....
— Edmund Crispin
What has been done to you is one thing. Yet to really suffer, to truly be burdened with guilt and shame, such pain always begins not with what has been done to you—but with what you have done. André Chevalier
— Nikki Sex, Abuse
If your situtation is the fault of anything or anyone else...there is very little hope and absolutely zero power over your own life."Responsibility is about hope and control. And...who doesn't want hope for a greater future that their choices control? ...Most folks look for their car keys with more energy than they search for the wisdom that can change their lives.
— Andy Andrews, The Noticer Returns: Sometimes You Find Perspective, and Sometimes Perspective Finds You
Holding one's self responsible is a critical feature in stigma and in the generation of shame since violation of standards, rules, and goals are insufficient in its elicitation unless responsibility can be placed on the self. Stigma may differ from other elicitors of shame and guilt, in part because it is a social appearance factor. The degree to which the stigma is socially apparent is the degree to which one must negotiate the issue of blame, not only for one's self but between one's self and the other who is witness to the stigma. Stigmatization is a much more powerful elicitor of shame and guilt in that it requires a negotiation not only between one's self and one's attributions, but between one's self and the attributions of others.
— Michael   Lewis
A decision is a responsibility, if you cannot handle responsibility, don't take decisions.
— Amit Kalantri
Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
— Dr. Jonas Salk
It's not what happens to you but your response to it that will either make you better or bitter.
— Benjamin Lotter
God makes the harvest to grow. But we choose the kind of seed we sow.
— Benjamin Lotter
Responsibility: Seeing something you don’t want to see.Not seeing something you do want to see.Hearing something you don’t want to hear.Not hearing something you do want to hear.Saying something you don’t want to say.Not saying something you do want to say.Touching something you don’t want to touch.Not touching something you do want to touch.Doing something you don’t want to do.Not doing something you do want to do.Being responsible when you don’t want to.Not being responsible when you do want to.
— Leah-Pearl
Until all processes are progressed, the world will not process meaningful, measurable progress.Progress the process, in order to process, progress. This shall be the responsibility of those who are for the light of universal innovation, as opposed to the benefactors of sectarian division.
— Justin Kyle McFarlane Beau
Some people live their lives being perpetual victims and finger pointers. To anyone who points a finger at someone else and lays all the blame at their feet instead of taking responsibility for their own behavior, I would say, "I see that finger and you know where you can put it?
— Donna Lynn Hope
Patients with complex trauma may at times develop extreme reactions to something the therapist has said or not said, done or not done. It is wise to anticipate this in advance, and perhaps to note this anticipation in initial communications with the patient. For example, one may say something like, "It is likely in our work together, there will be a time or times when you will feel angry with me, disappointed with me, or that I have failed you. We should except this and not be surprised if and when it happens, which it probably will." It is also vital to emphasize to the patient that despite the diagnosis and experience of dividedness, the whole person is responsible and will be held responsible for the acts of any part. p174
— Elizabeth F. Howell, The Dissociative Mind
The best words of wisdom that a parent can say to their child is "I Am proud of you".
— Unarine Ramaru
You are born with infinite possibilities. Take responsibility for turning these possibilities into reality, and you will be bestowed with success, love and eternal peace.
— Vishwas Chavan, Vishwasutras: Universal Principles for Living: Inspired by Real-Life Experiences
Yea, he who is a true king of men, will not say to himself, 'Lo! I am worthy to be crowned with laurels;' but rather will he say to himself, 'What more is there that I may do to make the world the better because of my endeavors?
— Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
You steadily grow into becoming your best as you choose to be accountable and accept responsibility for improvement.
— Steve Shallenberger, Becoming Your Best: The 12 Principles of Highly Successful Leaders
Throw your empty pop-corn tub in the trash and the entire cinema will be clean for the next patrons.
— Malti Bhojwani
He did not speak; merely looked at her with an expression she had seen traces of before but never fully understood until that moment. It was more apology than accusation---a dark stare of acknowledgment that told her he had long since seen his own fate in her actions, and had long since ceased to hold her responsible.
— Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood
Most of us are responsible most of the time, or we would not have come this far, it is remembering to not tell the victim story when we are under pressure that makes you a leader.
— Malti Bhojwani
Freedom without responsibility? What freedom is that? None at all.
— David Clement-Davies, Fell
Authenticity is not a metaphysically distinctive way of being human
—  it is just a way of taking responsibility for what one has already been given.
With privilege comes responsibility, you must understand that. People expect us to lead by example and we shall not disappoint them.
— Ben Elton
The strength of human instinct seems to be quite overrated as it is so feeble it requires a lifetime of guidance, education, training and practical experience to develop. More critically, without conscious and diligent effort across one generation to pass its knowledge on to the next generation, all that was gained will be lost, forewarned by an increasing rarity of the reminiscence, “Every secret of life I know, I learned at my grandfather’s knee.
— T.K. Naliaka
Get this through your head — you are not responsible for other people's happiness.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You are responsible for doing what good you can with what you have, and any good is better than none.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
We know what we should do. Age is no excuse. Do we go to others for permission or for discipline?
— Donna Lynn Hope
I don’t make excuses, so don’t make excuses for me. When I’m being an ass, it’s because I have one.
— Donna Lynn Hope
The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.
— Mark Twain
Some victims do need to "blame" themselves and take responsibility.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Don’t make excuses
—  accept responsibility. You must take responsibility for how you respond to everything that happens in your life
It is exclusively other people's responsibility to please themselves.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You are only responsible for the effort, not the outcome.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You can never be fully human unless you've discovered the humanity in other human beings. Don't close your eyes to the injustices of your own country by trying to solve the injustices of another country. That's an evasion of Christian responsibility.
— Beyers Naudé
I think that she is everything I have ever loved about our religion distilled down to fit into one person, everything about the faith that is both selfless and responsible.
— Ann Patchett, This is the Story of a Happy Marriage
If you have the gift of frustration and the deep sense that the world is a mess, thank God for that; not everyone has that gift of vision. It also means that you have a responsibility to lead us in new ways.
— Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
No," Foyle roared. "Let them hear this. Let them hear everything.""You're insane, man. You've handed a loaded gun to children.""Stop treating them like children and they'll stop behaving like children. Who the hell are you to play monitor?""What are you talking about?""Stop treating them like children. Explain the loaded gun to them. Bring it all out into the open." Foyle laughed savagely. "I've ended the last star-chamber conference in the world. I've blown that last secret wide open. No more secrets from now on.... No more telling the children what's best for them to know.... Let 'em all grow up. It's about 
— Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination
Realize that maturity does not come with age but with acceptance of responsibility.
— Michelle McKinney Hammond, The Unspoken Rules of Love: What Women Don't Know and Men Don't Tell You
It is your life...OWN IT! Your life purpose empowers you and enables you to live life abundantly. Empowerment begins by taking responsibility for your life and being accountable for your actions. Empowerment is the courage to live passionately and purposefully each day
— Thomas Narofsky, You are Unstoppable!: Unleash Your Inspired Life
In the war, to survive, you had to be responsible every minute of every day, unhesitatingly responsible for yourself, for your every action. You had to be responsible for your buddies, too, because survival wasn't something that could be achieved alone. That's maybe the one positive thing about fighting in a war - it clarifies your thinking and makes you realize that a sense of responsibility is what separates good men from the damned.
— Dean Koontz, Midnight
The real social contract, (Edmund Burke) argued, was not Rousseau's social contract between the noble savage and the General Will, but a "partnership" between the present generation and future generations.
— Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest
I have always believed that women hold this world together with theirlove, passion, inspiration, hard work, vision and willingness to helpothers. Yet, increased responsibility in both our personal and professionallives – to become “superwomen” – is taking a devastating toll onour health and happiness.
— Simin Hashemizadeh
Learn from me, for as I teach, I learn from you as well! Always be accountable to yourself and take complete responsibility for your own life. No one can do as much for you, as you can do for yourself…
— James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
As Ernest Becker observes in The Denial of Death, the very thought of disobeying authority appears to awaken the anxiety connected with the possible loss, during infancy, of parental love, respect or support. The unexamined beliefs and experiences that generate our reliance on, and deference to authority, seem rooted in a profound existential uncertainty: the patient looks to the doctor to relieve this uncertainty, not only about not feeling well and not knowing why, but also about not knowing what to do, what action to undertake. In other words, the expertise of the physician relieves the patient of some of the burden of responsibility.
— Daniel Waterman, Entheogens, Society and Law: The Politics of Consciousness, Autonomy and Responsibility
if we want individuals to take responsibility for their actions we must first establish a rational, effective and empowering means of separating individual responsibility from that of the collective.
— Daniel Waterman
With this answer Elizabeth was forced to be content; but her own opinion continued the same, and she left disappointed and sorry. It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was no part of her disposition.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
The failure of individual responsibility must be compensated for by a collective response and the consequences of such a failure at the collective level often devolve to individuals. The net result is that a lack of responsibility becomes culturally acceptable and that both individuals and societies as a whole adopt explanatory models that construct the prevalent condition as an unavoidable situation, rather than one that could easily be transformed by taking responsibility where possible.
— Daniel Waterman
A significant factor often overlooked by those considering the failure of drug policy is the general aim of deflecting or assigning responsibility away from the policy-makers and the ‘moral-majority.
— Daniel Waterman
The real American ideal of cool which is building businesses, protecting freedom at home and abroad, taking responsibility for your actions, and leaving other people alone to live as they damn well please.
— Greg Gutfeld, Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You
You arenever responsible for the actions of others
—  you are only responsible for you.
Many guilty consciences have been created by the slave trade. Europeans know that they carried on the slave trade, and Africans are aware that the trade would have been impossible if certain Africans did not cooperate with slave ships. To ease their guilty consciences, Europeans try to throw the major responsibility for the slave trade on to the Africans. One major author on the slave trade (appropriately titled Sins of Our Fathers) explained how many white people urged him to state that the trade was the responsibility of African chiefs, and that Europeans merely turned up to buy captives- as though without European demand there would have been captives sitting on the beach by the millions! Issues such as those are not the principal concern of this study, but they can be correctly approached only after understanding that Europe became the center of a world-wide system and that it was European capitalism which set slavery and the Atlantic slave trade in motion. Pg. 82
— Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Jefferson was ambivalent about executive power – until he bore executive responsibility.
— Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
From too much liberty, my Lucio, libertyAs surfeit is the father of much fast,So every scope of the immoderate useTurns to restraint. Our natures do pursue, -Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, - A thirsty evil; and when we drink we die.
— William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
I mean, all I do here is do the work that my bosses tell me to do the way they tell me to do it. I don't have to think at all. It's like I just put my brain in a locker before I start work and pick it up on the way home. I spend seven hours a day at a workbench, planting hairs into wig bases, then I eat dinner in the cafeteria, take a bath, and of course I have to sleep, like everybody else, so out of a twenty-four-hour day, the amount of free time I have is like nothing. And because I'm so tired from work, the 'free time' I have I mostly spend lying around in a fog. I don't have any time to sit and think about anything. Of course, I don't have to work on the weekends, but then I have to do the laundry and cleaning I've let go, and sometimes I go into town, and before I know it the weekend is over. I once made up my mind to keep a diary, but I had nothing to write, so I quit after a week. I mean, I just do the same thing over and over again, day in, day out.
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Quiet that self-sabotaging inner voice that lays blame anywhere besides at the altar of your feet. We are responsible for the quality of our lives.
— Toni Sorenson
If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
No amount of pics posted on your web, homepage, blog etc is going to change your devastated image but another humble restarts.
— sol michael
I don't even have a dog. I tell people I'm allergic so they won't think less of me. Instead I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of responsibility required.
— Anna Quindlen, Rise and Shine
If you believe the world will be a better place because you have both the desire and the means to take charge, that's the time for you to jump in. It doesn't matter if you rise up to take the lead only once or twice in your entire working life or if you do it daily. There are so many moments when you can make a difference--by enriching an outcome, saving a great idea, defending the beleaguered or downtrodden, and not least, expressing your own gifts and wisdom.
— Charlotte Beers, I'd Rather Be in Charge: A Legendary Business Leader's Roadmap for Achieving Pride, Power, and Joy at Work
Heterosexuality is the enjoyment with fear, the pleasure with responsibility and the lust with concerns.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
A young woman asked the great preacher Charles Spurgeon if it was possible to reconcile God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility. “Young woman,” said he. “You don’t reconcile friends
— Elisabeth Elliot, Discipline: The Glad Surrender
It's been hard for me at times...the responsibility and expectation that comes with being a leader. I'm not always the one I wish I could be, that I should be, but nonetheless, it is my place. If I were to ever show a commitment to something other than my leadership, which could jeopardize the function I have, I would be risking too many lives. I couldn't live with that.
— Jessica Shirvington, Enticed
The immature person makes excuses to avoid the responsibility of his own potential. -Wade D. Sadlier
— Wade D. Sadlier
It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in power; we are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible, and which are not. …
— Carl Sagan
... privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, Gifts
I am terribly glad to be alive and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man and an American with all the rights and privileges that those words connote. And most of all I am humbled before the responsibilities that are also mine. For no right comes without a responsibility and being born luckier than most of the world's millions, I am also born more obligated.
— Wallace Stegner
As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial and potentially harmful ends. Increased knowledge clearly implies increased responsibility.
— Nicolaas Bloembergen
This life is only a test' is a counter-productive mindset
—  it encourages wishful thinking toward and elusive and likely non-existent afterlife while often enabling the believer to squander this life as somehow less important.
For we must farm or die. In undertaking farming we undertake a responsibility covering the whole life cycle. We can break it or keep it whole. We have broken it, but there is yet time to mend it; perhaps only just time.
— Walter Ernest Christopher James, Look to the Land
If a player won’t shoulder responsibility, he won’t work on his weaknesses, which means he won’t improve. He’ll be constantly on the prowl for a fall guy or a scapegoat, and his teammates becomes epidemic.
— Bill Parcels
We must take responsibility for ourselves, for who we become, for how we live each day.
— Kitt Weagant, Each Day a New Beginning: Daily Meditations for Women
Resiliency is the body's internal response to a stressful situation.
— Asa Don Brown, The effects of childhood trauma on adult perception and worldview
A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have more responsibility, rather than less.
— C.P. Snow
. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and end. The baby, again, the animal, they don't see the difference between what they do now and what will happen because of it. They can't make a pulley, or a promise. We can. Seeing the difference between now and not now, we can make the connection. And there morality enters in. Responsibility. To say that a good end will follow from a bad means is just like saying that if I pull a rope on this pulley it will lift the weight on that one. To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past; therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.If time and reason are functions of each other, if we are creatures of time, then we had better know it, and try to make the best of it. To act responsibly.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
«In my opinion, it is you considerate, humane men, that are responsible for all the brutality and outrage wrought by these wretches; because, if it were not for your sanction and influence, the whole system could not keep foothold for an hour. If there were no planters except such as that one,» said he, pointing with his finger to Legree, who stood with his back to them, «the whole thing would go down like a millstone. It is your respectability and humanity that licenses and protects his brutality.»
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.
— Henry Miller
There is only one means of salvation, then take yourself and make yourself responsible for all men's sins, that is the truth, you know, friends, for as soon as you sincerely make yourself responsible for everything and for all men, you will see at once that it is really so, and that you are to blame for every one and for all things.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
And that we are all responsible to all for all, apart from our own sins, you were quite right in thinking that, and it is wonderful how you could comprehend it in all its significance at once. And in very truth, so soon as men understand that, the Kingdom of Heaven will be for them not a dream, but a living reality.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
I should have been conceived during Woodstock
—  it’s in my blood: that burning desire to turn an absolute on its head and see what’s underneath. I’m as random as I can be and as responsible as I should be. Attempting to fuse the two makes for interesting days.
We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.
— Woodrow Wilson
During the earliest attacks of Fear and intense unreality, I sometimes uttered these unconscious and shocking words: 'I should prefer to escape into madness to avoid this consuming fear.' Alas, I did not know what I was saying. In my ignorance I believed that madness was a state of insensibility where there was neither pain nor suffering nor joy, but particularly, no responsibility. Never, for one instant, has I even imagined what 'to lose one's reason' actually meant.
— Marguerite Sechehaye, Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl
The needs are too great, and there are too few of us. We have a duty, a responsibility to help others. It’s not all about fun. It’s not always easy.
— Leland Dirks, Seven Dogs in Heaven
I'm starting to understand that attempting to be perfect has been the goal of my life. Our lives. Attempting to be this fault-free, smiling person in this loving, happy family that fits so perfectly in this pretty, inoffensive little town. What was so bad about that goal after all? Only that I couldn't do it. That I let everybody down. I've been so down about it, so depressed thinking about all the balls I was trying to juggle that I've dropped, and now the cogs are turning toward total apathy toward it all, everything and all I can think about is that I am a shell of a human being. I'm a pushover. I'm to blame.
— Abigail Tarttelin, Golden Boy
Stop blaming and start aiming.
— Rob Liano
Chances are if you find yourself caught up in a political foofaraw at work, or in some family squabble at home, it's because someone else is succeeding in convincing you that his problem is your problem. The non-self-destructor recognizes this and as soon as possible, gives the sleepless night back to the person to whom it belongs.
— Jason Seiden, How to Self-Destruct: Making the Least of What's Left of Your Career
For if one is partly insane, one is also, juridically, partly sane, and if one is partly sane one is at least partly responsible for one's actions, and if one is partly responsible one is wholly responsible; for responsibility is, as they say, that state in which the individual has the power to devote himself to a specific purpose of his own free will, independently of any compelling necessity, and one cannot simultaneously possess and lack such self-determination.
— Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities: Vol. 1
In you is the ability that will move you from nonentity and mediocrity to an entity of meteority. Take responsiblity now!
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
THE RELIABLE WAY OUT OF OBESITY IS VIA PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. This point has been lost on the hundreds of folks who have railed against my arguments for food addiction in periodicals, so I"m eager to make it here: No one but me put the food in my mouth. Even if I had grown up imprisoned in a crawl space under the basement stairs (I wasn't), even if tragedy has befallen me every 15 minutes since (it hasn't), I"m still responsible for what I eat. If my food is out of control (it was), then I'm responsible for finding, requesting, and accepting the help I need.
— Michael Prager, Fat Boy Thin Man
Ours is no ordinary calling. Great opportunities and privileges have been bestowed upon us. To us, as a people, has been entrusted the grand and glorious labor of laying the foundation of the kingdom of God upon the earth. Every act of our lives should be performed with this in view. Nothing should be done by anyone calling himself a Latter-day Saint that will conflict with the policy which God has announced as proper to be adopted in establishing that kingdom" (The Discourses of Wilford Woodruff, p. 125).
— Wilford Woodruff
If we want to be endowed with rights – real human rights, we have to act with responsibility. We must not be comfortable with rights. We must be comfortable with responsibility.
— Glenn Beck
America comes with both rights and responsibilities. You have, for example, the right to free speech, but you have the responsibility to not yell 'fire' in a crowded theater. If you don't live up to that responsibility, you face certain consequences. It's a simple but effective formula. Unfortunately, tenured professors are completely insulated from it. They can scream fire in their classrooms all they want - and then hide behind their tenure if anyone questions them on it.
— Glenn Beck, Cowards: What Politicians, Radicals, and the Media Refuse to Say
Love is more responsible, when it's titled a definite relation...
— Sudeep Prakash Sdk
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
— Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Our parts now -- which perforce we must play -- are not father and daughter, but one old Abhorsen, making way for the new. But behind this, there is always my love.
— Garth Nix, Sabriel
Your success is your responsibility. Take the initiative, do the work, and persist to the end.
— Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
He had hopes, but hope wasn't a solution.
— Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange
Stand in your own two shoes.
— T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken
Writing without responsibility is like taking out your cloths in public and begging people to not look at you.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Managing excuses means not excusing yourself from the responsibility you need to take with your thought, words, and actions.
— Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
It is a responsibility for those that see and have understanding, and choose to not be bridled by fear, to step forward and lead the way.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
There are some debts that can't be paid with money.
— Steven J. Carroll, The Road to Jericho
Desert heat or not, the idea that my younger self was facing her last moments was a bucket of cold water in the face. I didn’t like her, but she appeared to have her shit together in a way I hadn’t for a long time, and she had, frankly, deserved better than me. I tried to wet my lips, had nothing to do it with and croaked, “Sorry.” “Don’t be sorry. Be good. Be right. Be a hero.
— C.E. Murphy, Raven Calls
Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
— Iris Murdoch, The Bell
Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.
— Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds
Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics
You can either complain about how hard your life is, or you can realize that only you are responsible for it.
— Glenn Beck, The Christmas Sweater
‎"If a person is not willing to take responsibility for themselves, it does not excuse them from not taking responsibility when their bad choices affect others.
— L.M. Fields
The people of jewel," said Olga Ciavolga,"treat their children like delicate flowers. They think they will not survive without constant protection. But there are parts of the world where young boys and girls spend weeks at a time with no company except a herd of goats. They chase away wolves. They take care of themselves, and they take care of the herd. And so, when hard times come - as they always do in the end - those children are resourceful and brave. If they have to walk from one end of the county to the other, carrying their baby brother and sisters, they will do it. If they have to hide during the day and travel at night to avoid soldiers, they will do it. They do not give up easily." The tunnel took a sharp right-hand turn and, for a moment, the old woman s voice was lost. Something dropped onto Goldie's arm, and she opened her mouth to yelp - and thought of those children carrying their baby brothers and sisters through the night - and closed her mouth and kept going. She rounded the corner in time to hear Olga Ciavolga murmur,"Of course, I am not saying that it is a good thing to give children such heavy responsibility's. They must be allowed to have a childhood. But they must also be allowed to find their courage and their wisdom, and learn when to stand and when to run away. After all, if they are not permitted to climb the trees, how will they ever see the great and wonderful world that lies before them?
— Lian Tanner, Museum of Thieves
A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really stands in their place. He is not an isolated individual, but incorporates the selves of several people in his own self. Every attempt to live as if he were alone is a denial of the fact that he is actually responsible. He cannot escape the responsibility, which is his because he is a father. This reality refutes the fictitious notion that the isolated individual is the agent of all ethical behavior. It is not the isolated individual but the responsible person who is the proper agent to be considered in ethical reflection.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics
In bad times, a king or a queen can be a rock for the waters to crash against, so those less strong are not washed away. I will be such a rock. Only give me a chance, sweet Zoria, and I will be a rock for my people.
— Tad Williams, Shadowheart
And then you got us. Yeah, we stopped the zombie menace, but we're the ones who let it become a menace in the first place. At least we're cleaning up our own mess, and maybe that's the best epitaph to hope for. "Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.
— Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
A moment of brilliance is not good enough to pay for your mistakes, it's taking responsibility
— Mohamed Mohamed Adel
A student was given a mentoring opportunity, "in the hope that when you had somebody to lean on you, you would begin to stand a little steadier yourself, and get manliness and thoughtfulness.
— Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays
No man can choose to serve only himself when he has something to offer his state. No one can put his own wishes above the needs of so many.
— Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia
Never let me hear you say it's someone else's fault. It often is, but you must never shirk your own responsibility ... You can't change others, but you can do something about a fault in yourself.
— Anne Holm, I Am David
That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.
— Mark Twain
The irresponsible mother helped explain bella's maturity. She'd had to grow up early, to become the caretaker. That's why she didn't like being cared for- she felt it was her job.
— Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun
Hiroshima is like a nakedly exposed wound inflicted on all mankind.
— Kenzaburō Ōe, Hiroshima Notes
The only way we can change our world is to take responsibility for our part in it.
— Rachael Bermingham
We naturally try to forget our personal tragedies, serious or trifling, as soon as possible (even something as petty as being scorned or disdained by a stranger on a street corner). We try not to carry these things over to tomorrow. It is not strange, therefore, that the whole human race is trying to put Hiroshima, the extreme point of human tragedy, completely out of mind.
— Kenzaburō Ōe, Hiroshima Notes
Completing the circle is both philosophical and tactical - there is a growing sense of mastery that comes with practice, diligence, and experience.
— Eric Mann, Playbook for Progressives: 16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer
The price of greatness is responsibilty.
— Winston Churchill James
Turbulence means nothing if God is the pilot.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you don't know what to do, do what you know and soon, what you're supposed to do will feel more appealing.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
To attach to a goal is to mentally protect it because of a negative story running at the back of your mind. To surrender is to tap into your faith and believe that something bigger than you can do the work without the interruption of your human condition.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
A believe in yourself is powerful enough to turn you into a world leader while self-doubt and self-pity are powerful enough to turn you into a street loiterer
— Nicky Verd
Any seed that is planted by God bears fruit even before it touches the ground.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Doubt is unnecessary
—  do not carry it. Faith is necessary
Long term sustainability requires relentless endurance and gratitude in all your efforts.
— Wayne Chirisa
If you are willing to kill for your beliefs, you are a murderer; if you are willing to die for your beliefs, you are a martyr.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Before you ask God to bless you, give Him a reason to.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Place your faith not in the frailness of "Man" but in the power and glory of the creator and observe what happens next......
— Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army
I can't say enough how important is the spiritual lifeto know God is with you all the timegives you confidence
— Phil Mitchell, A Bright New Morning: An American Story
During my road trip of life I have encountered many potholes, areas under construction, delays caused by others on the same road, and 18 wheelers that seemed like they were only there to prevent me from arriving at my destination. Through it all my next stop is just down the road and I still have my 4 tires (faith, health, family, and friends) It's also so important to remember the Lord just lets you THINK you're in the drivers seat, its up to you to KNOW who is really in control.
— Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army
It’s always amazing, when I think about this exact time every year. My goals seemed so lofty and far away. Today, I see that I am actually my own time machine with the ability to write my future through my positive thoughts and actions. However, negative thoughts and inaction can produce a disastrous cause and effect. I reassured myself all year and envisioned who and where I wanted to be at the end of this year and it came to pass. I had some set backs and some uncompleted projects but I never stayed down for long. My faith in the Lord keeps me optimistic and my desire to be the respected leader of my Family gives me all the fuel I need to hit the next check point. I ask the Lord to focus my attention on being more organized and balancing my love of food with my physical activity level. The time is now and the door of opportunities is always open to pass through.
— Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army
Life is the ultimate gift of experience and if you are not impressed by the blessing the Lord has given you every awaking day to make a difference, I say your stuck in the mud and you need to call AAA which is code for "Say A Prayer" and get pulled out. Love life and create positive SYNERGY with others while you can before this chapter closes.
— Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army
When we quit focusing on the wrong in the past or the uncertainty of the future, we get to monitor and determine our emotional states, as we enjoy and surrender to our present moment with confidence that we shall be led to our next destination.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
Leaps of faith are what enables some beliefs to have any legitimacy.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
One of the strongest conviction of delayed gratification is to convince people to have faith in the truth.
— Sunday Adelaja
Delayed gratification is to have a strong faith in the laws of nature and the principles of God.
— Sunday Adelaja
The race may be rough and tough, hard and hash, rude and crude, but only the pure and tough comes out clean and victorious
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Through Faith: Living an Overcoming Life
Not until you spread your wings
—  will you know just how far you can fly
Without hope there is no faith and without faith it is impossible to love. If we do not embrace love we cannot embrace hope and therefore have no purpose.
— Matthew James Elliott
If God had a wife, He would be in trouble too if He dodged His chores.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You will never know how courageous you are until you are willing to leave your comfort zone to leap into the unknown.
— Theresa Lewis
If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” Matthew 17: 21
— Jesus
Just because you are on a path to damnation, doesn’t mean you’re going to get there. Be willing to change your travel plans.
— Wllm Worth, Jona: Autobiography of an Exorcist
Once the lotus of your inner divinity gets full-blown and you reach the mental state where all the religious giants of human history experienced the all-encompassing sense of godliness, the exuberance of the human mind turns infinite.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a Scientist Who Found Himself by Getting Lost
A person whom lives by faith is not bound to feel hopelessness or the agony of infinite despair.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Your words are so powerful that they can breakhearts or fill them with joy. Your words havethe ability to comfort a wounded soul or shattersomeone’s confidence. Your words can act as yourmessengers of hope or a salve for a broken humanbeing.
— Rachel C. Weingarten, Ancient Prayer: Channeling Your Faith 365 Days of the Year
You create what you speak. So, speak a better world.Speak a happier and more loving life. Speak yourdespair and let it lead you back to your truth.
— Rachel C. Weingarten, Ancient Prayer: Channeling Your Faith 365 Days of the Year
Faith has answers that the ears can't always hear.
— Margie Mersky
A man can feel pain in an amputated arm (an arm that is not there). A man can also feel anxious when he thinks about how his soul will burn in the fire of hell when he is threatened by it though he cannot see it physically
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
I am going and I don't know where I am going. I leave you searching for answers. When I get there, if there is any way to come back either spiritually or physically or through a revelation, I will let you know what I have experienced. Of course some will not believe me or the one I send
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
FAITH is not the LAST OPTION left,It is the FIRST REASON to STAND FIRM in what we BELIEVED
— Julie Jenifer
If you truly love someone You don’t need to be faithful It will just happen.
— Ahmed Ali Anjum
Faith doesn't make sense.It makes Miracles.
— Pragnya Sahoo
To stay grounded and feel secure, I choose:Faith over fear;Action over procrastination;Focus over distraction;Reflection over reaction.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
While faith may seem hard to reach sometimes and hope is invisible, that doesn't lessen the power of either of the two...Some of the things that we can't see or physically touch have the strongest power...Hope, faith and love are some of the best tools that we have been given in life.
— Ariana R. Cherry
What you give today you get tomorrow.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Trying to figure it all out is impossible. But what isn’t impossible is to:Have gratitudeStay PositiveHave faithBe friendly and kindListen first; speak secondDo your best, not try to be the bestEnjoy the ride!
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Never be defined by what has happened to you in the past, it was just a life lesson, not a life sentence. ~ Donald Pillai
— Donald Pillai
FaithWALK~When I tell you to walk, run like the wind for your guaranteed to fly...
— Tracie Berry-McGhee
Sometimes believing is a matter of deciding. Deciding who you’re going to trust and what you know about who you trust.
— Melissa Tagg, Like Never Before
When you really let people see you, Amelia–all of you, not just the snow-obsessed reporter–it’s impossible to look away.
— Melissa Tagg, Like Never Before
Faith is simply jumping from heights and believing that the parachute activation button won't disappoint.
— Seun Ayilara
You see, Katie," Pastor Ron said, "that’s what makes faith so tough to grasp, but also makes it so wonderful. It’s all about believing in something—whether it’s God, or other people, or even yourself—when you’ve got nothing else to go on. Nothing but a little voice inside telling you it’s more than a hunch.
— Kaylin McFarren, Flaherty's Crossing
A little belief, a little hope, a little faith is sometimes all you need to see the light.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
The battle for the lead between faith and reason can be settled by accepting the guiding hand of an experienced navigator.
— Elaine Orabona Foster, In Movement There Is Peace
The Shooting Star CharmTo Be Lucky in Love, You Must First Believe in Miracles
— Viola Shipman, The Charm Bracelet
The Snowflake CharmBe As Unique As A Snowflake: Embrace All Your Dimensions
— Viola Shipman, The Charm Bracelet
A person with out a faith, is like a like a body with out a soul.
— "Beta" Metani' Marashi
We just have to believe and excise our faith: The Lord answered, 'If you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to thi mulberry tree, 'May you be uprooted and thrown into the sea,' and it would obey you!(Luke 17:6, NLT).
— Euginia Herlihy
…there is faith and faith. One form of faith is actual practice—the rituals and so on—the other form of faith involves actually believing in it.
— Alexander McCall Smith, At the Reunion Buffet
There is always hope and room for faith. Unless, of course, you trust the voice that screams otherwise, while ignoring the whisper that knows this to be true.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
You don't need faith to walk on the riverbank, you need faith to walk on water.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Perpetual optimism is good for the mind.Perpetual hope is good for the heart.Perpetual faith is good for the heart.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you build your faith with the limitations as the foundation, you tend to obstruct the realization of your goals easily.
— Stephen Richards, Be First: Achieve Every Dream
How can you know God if you don't seek out his voice, find it, and learn to follow the path he is leading you on
— Phil Mitchell, A Bright New Morning: An American Story