Quotes · Skopia

11 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Topic·Personal responsibility✕clear

Chiefly, the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

1625

★ 7.0

Speech · Political speech

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Booker T. Washington

1896

★ 3.9

Play · Comedy (play)

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe to heaven.

William Shakespeare

All's Well that Ends Well · 1616

★ 3.6

Essay · Philosophical literature

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

Being and Nothingness · 1943

★ 3.6

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.

Florence Nightingale

1861

★ 2.1

Speech · Political speech

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

1892

★ 2.0

Autobiography and memoir

Life is what we make of it. Always has been, always will be.

1951

★ 2.0

Speech · Political speech

America, 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.

First Inaugural Address of George W. Bush · 2001

★ 2.0

Speech · Political speech

A 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.

Second Inaugural Address of Richard Nixon · 1973

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

It 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.

1993

★ 1.7

Scripture · Religious literature

Whatever good visits thee, it is of God; whatever evil visits thee is of thyself.

The Quran · 632

★ 1.6