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“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Think before you speak. You might need to remember what you said.”
Rain Bojangles
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
Sigmund Freud
“Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility.”
Newton N. Minow
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
Winston Churchill
“I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.”
Walter Anderson
“Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.”
Michael Korda