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Quotes About Responsibility

If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.
~ Henry Rollins
A sin is two sins when it is defended.
~ Henry Smith
Great leaders don't make excuses. They make things better. They are not unrealistic or blind to the difficulties they face. They simply are not discouraged by them. They never lose confidence that the problems can be solved. They maintain a positive attitude. Great leaders don't blame their people for not being where they ought to be; they take their people from where they are to where they need to be. Great leaders never lose faith that this is possible.
~ Henry T. Blackaby
He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.
~ Henry Van Dyke
His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The fate of a nation was riding that night.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Well, we're all in this together, boys. Each one of us must think, not of himself, but of his pals. We must stick by our pals, which means our country. Our country is our people, remember. It took a war like this one to bring that home to everybody.
~ Henry Williamson
Qué sociedad! -A tal sociedad, tal César.[...]
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
the ears of the prince. His guardianship over
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Send him to the devil, I'm busy.
~ Leo Tolstoy
there is a kind of business, called Government service, which allows men to treat other men as things without having human brotherly relations with them; and that they should be so linked together by this Government service that the responsibility for the results of their deeds should not fall on any one of them individually.
~ Leo Tolstoy
If you feel that you are not free, look for the reason inside you.
~ Leo Tolstoy
To sin is a human business, but to justify sins is a devilish business.
~ Leo Tolstoy
One must do one of two tings: either admit that the existing order of society is just, and then stick up for one's rights in it;or acknowledge that you are enjoying unjust privileges, as i do, and then enjoy them and be satisfied.
~ Leo Tolstoy
A wife's a worry, a non-wife's even worse.
~ Leo Tolstoy
What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!
~ Leo Tolstoy