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"My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that 'Carpe Diem' is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds-for who can trust to tomorrow?" George Gordon Byron 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such 'breaks' are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready." Lawrence Downs 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility; never an opportunity." Kahlil Gibran 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity." Kahlil Gibran 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults." Eric Hoffer 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted." Eric Idle 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"We must exchange the philosophy of excuse--what I am is beyond my control--for the philosophy of responsibility." Barbara Charline Jordan 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"When at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each one of us-recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the state-our success or failure, in whatever office we may hold, will be measured by the answers to four questions-were we truly men of courage ... were we truly men of judgment ... were we truly men of integrity ... were we truly men of dedication?" John Fitzgerald Kennedy 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe." Christine Lane 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority." Stanley Milgram 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical." Eugenio Montale 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Duty is what one expects from others." Oscar Wilde 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Author Unknown 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him." Booker T. Washington 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"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 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." Galileo Galilei 4.8667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love." Albert Einstein 4.8246 average rating Rate this Quote
"Character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs." Joan Didion 4.8182 average rating Rate this Quote
"I do not feel obliged to believe that that same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use." Galileo Galilei 4.8148 average rating Rate this Quote
"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility." Dietrich Bonhoeffer 4.8000 average rating Rate this Quote
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Abraham Lincoln Albert Camus Albert Einstein
Alexander Hamilton Ambrose Bierce Anthony M. Kennedy
Antonio Gramsci Arbie M. Dale Author Unknown
Barbara Charline Jordan Barber B. Conable, Jr Bill Maher
Booker T. Washington Charles Mathias, Jr. Christine Lane
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Donald Robert Perry Marquis Douglas Noel Adams
Elbert Hubbard Eric Hoffer Eric Idle
Eugenio Montale Francisco "El Caudillo" Franco Frank H. Crane
Galileo Galilei George Burns Georges Duhamel
George Gordon Byron Gerald W. Johnson Giosue Borsi
Harlan Ellison Helen Merrell Lynd Hillary Rodham Clinton
James Agee James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
Joan Didion John Fitzgerald Kennedy John L. Casteel
J(ohn) Edgar Hoover Kahlil Gibran Lawrence Downs
Louis Louis K. Anspacher Lyndon Baines Johnson
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Marian Wright Edelman Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr.
Mark McGee Michael Korda Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Napolean Hill Oliver L. North Oscar Wilde
Paxton Blair Peter F(erdinand) Drucker Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard David Bach Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill Srully D. Blotnick
Stanley Milgram Stephen Crane Thomas Jefferson
Ursula K. LeGuin William Gordon William John Bennett





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