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Character, not circumstances, makes the man. — Booker T. Washington · 1896Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton · 1892America, at its best, is a place where personal responsibility is valued and expected. Encouraging responsibility is not a search for scapegoats, it is a call to conscience. And though it requires sacrifice, it brings a deeper fulfillment. We find the fullness of life not only in options, but in commitments. — George W. Bush · 2001A person can be expected to act responsibly only if he has responsibility. This is human nature. So let us encourage individuals at home and nations abroad to do more for themselves, to decide more for themselves. Let us locate responsibility in more places. Let us measure what we will do for others by what they will do for themselves. — Richard Nixon · 1973It is... Time to get back to basics: to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family, and not shuffling it off on the state. — John Major · 1993Autobiography and memoir1 quote
Life is what we make of it. Always has been, always will be. — Grandma Moses · 1951Comedy (play)1 quote
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie
Which we ascribe to heaven. — William Shakespeare · 1616Philosophical literature1 quote
Man, being condemned to be free carries the weight of the whole world on his shoulders; he is responsible for the world and himself as a way of being. — Jean-Paul Sartre · 1943Religious literature1 quote
Whatever good visits thee, it is of God; whatever evil visits thee is of thyself. — Muhammad · 632