People also feel important when they're given responsibility. But responsibility without authority can destroy a person's self-esteem.
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it. - John F. Kennedy
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. - Jim Rohn
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. - Tony Robbins
To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. - Jordan Peterson
We believe that in reducing the scope and importance of our errors, we are properly humble; in truth, we are merely unwilling to bear the weight of our true responsibility. - Jordan Peterson
There are two major reasons for resentment: being taken advantage of (or allowing yourself to be taken advantage of), or whiny refusal to adopt responsibility and grow up. - Jordan Peterson
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams. - Les Brown
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. - Les Brown
Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling. - Stephen Covey
Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other. - Jane Goodall
The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it. - Joel Salatin
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. - John F. Kennedy
I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently. - J.K. Rowling
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
A nice person is a 'yes' person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries to constantly evolve and isn't afraid to say no or challenge someone or be honest or truthful. - Miranda Kerr
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. - Leo Tolstoy
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