~ Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself. ~
~ No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility. ~
~ The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. ~
~ You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. ~
~ I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty. ~
~ You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. ~
~ Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility. ~
~ The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. ~
~ Responsibility always exceeds authority ~
~ Man has responsibility, not power. ~
~ We're in a fight for our principles and our first responsibility is to live by them. ~
~ Only where we ourselves are responsible for our own interests and are free to sacrifice them has our decision moral value. We are neither entitled to be unselfish at someone else's expense nor is there any merit in being unselfish if we have no choice. The members of a society who in all respects are made to do the good thing have no title to praise. ~