Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you.
David NichollsTag: personal-responsibility incrementalism
... no one can ever save someone else, you know? We can only save ourselves. You know that, don't you?
Carrie JonesTag: self-determination personal-responsibility
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.
Eleanor RooseveltTag: individualism personal-responsibility
When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters.
Iain PearsTag: knowledge evil willful-ignorance civilization guilt responsibility cowardice personal-responsibility genocide nazis hitler blame denunciation deportation
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The power behind taking responsibility for your actions lies in putting an end to negative thought patterns. You no longer dwell on what went wrong or focus on whom you are going to blame. You don't waste time building roadblocks to your success. Instead, you are set free and can now focus on succeeding.
Lorii MyersTag: motivational inspirational success personal-responsibility self-improvement positive-thinking
If a mistake is made the honorable thing to do is to own up to it.' Of course I was talking about Levi owning up to his mistakes. But as I finish this book, I realize it applies equally to myself, and to all of us as we try but fail to live up to the standards we know are right. Our inability and unwillingness to keep the standards don't make the standards any less valuable and good.
Bristol PalinHuman rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in...A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTag: freedom personal-responsibility human-rights limitations personal-autonomy
If you own this story you get to write the ending.
Brené BrownTag: life self story personal-responsibility taking-ownership
The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them.
Steve MaraboliTag: inspirational success happiness power change responsibility personal-responsibility victim potential
There has been no single influence which has done more to prevent man from finding God and rebuilding his character, has done more to lower the moral tone of society than the denial of personal guilt. This repudiation of man’s personal responsibility for his action is falsely justified in two ways: by assuming that man is only an animal and by giving a sense of guilt the tag “morbid.
Fulton J. SheenTag: guilt personal-responsibility catholicism catholic catholic-spirituality
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