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• But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There’s a song that says, “the time ain’t long.” That song is right. Something has got to change in Americaand change soon. We must help that change to come.

  Langston Hughes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change/Growth, African American, Writers And Writing, Responsibility

• Managing an advertising agency isn’t all beer and skittles. After fourteen years of it, I have come to the conclusion that the top man has one principle responsibility: to provide an atmosphere in which creative mavericks can do useful work.

  David Ogilvy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Advertising, Managers, Responsibility, Principles

• A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.

  John C. Maxwell

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Responsibility, Blame

• Humanism is optimistic regarding human nature and confident in human reason and science as the best means of reaching the goal of human fulfillment in this world. Humanists affirm that humans are a product of the same evolutionary process that produced all other living organisms and that all ideas, knowledge, values, and social systems are based upon human experience. Humanists conclude that creative ability and personal responsibility are strongest when the mind is free from supernatural belief and operates in an atmosphere of freedom and democracy.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humanism, Responsibility

• Creative ability and personal responsibility are strongest when the mind is free from supernatural belief and operates in an atmosphere of freedom and democracy.

  Unknown

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Responsibility, Freedom, Creativity

• What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility … a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Patriotism, Responsibility

• An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Nonviolence, Injustice, Disobedience, Acceptance, Responsibility, Community, Conscience

• You do not become a “dissident” just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.

  Vaclav Havel

  Topics in Dissent

  Tags in Responsibility

• Genuine politics — even politics worthy of the name — the only politics I am willing to devote myself to — is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.

  Vaclav Havel

  Topics in Politics, Service

  Tags in Human Rights, Compassion, Ethics, Responsibility, Duty, Community

• The important role of union organizations must be admitted: their object is the representation of the various categories of workers, their lawful collaboration in the economic advance of society, and the development of the sense of their responsibility for the realization of the common good.

  Pope Paul VI

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Responsibility, Labor, Community

• Becoming responsible adults is no longer a matter of whether children hang up there pajamas or put dirty towels in the hamper, but whether they care about themselves and others — and whether they see everyday chores as related to how we treat this planet.

  Eda LeShan

  Topics in Children, Family

  Tags in Responsibility, Duty

• How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one’s culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

  Barry Lopez

  Topics in Confusion, Life

  Tags in Ethics, Responsibility, Duty, Evil, Questions, Maturity, Choice, Choosing

• The price of greatness is responsibility.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Responsibility, Rights, Inspiration

• A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”

  Viktor Emil Frankl

  Topics in Expectations, Ideals, Life, Love

  Tags in Responsibility, Duty, Purpose, Meaning

• When you pass the buck, don’t ask for change.

  Solomon Short

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Responsibility

• I believe that to meet the challenges of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for oneself, one’s own family or nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.

  Tenzin Gyatso

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Interdependence, Responsibility

• Healthy responsibility is defined as taking 100 percent responsibility for yourself while inspiring others to take 100 percent responsibility.

  Gay Hendricks

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Responsibility

• I can resist everything except temptation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Responsibility, Conscience, Difficulties, Choice, Choosing

• If I were to say, “God, why me?” about the bad things, then I should have said, “God, why me?” about the good things that happened in my life.

  Arthur Ashe

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Responsibility

• Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

  Barack Obama

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Change/Growth, Responsibility, Readiness