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Quotes about responsibility
Words on responsibility — gathered from across the ages, set on the page.
How can I blame the wind for the mess it made, if it was me who opened the window.— Anonymous
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.— Kurt Vonnegut
Your wound is not your fault but your healing is your responsibility.— Anonymous
When you're born you look like your parents. When you die you look like your decisions.— Anonymous
Some things are within our control and some things are not. Within our control are opinion, motivation, desire, aversion, and our actions. Not within our control are our body, property, reputation, and office.— Epictetus
If you wish to improve, be content to appear foolish and stupid regarding externals.— Epictetus
It is not things themselves that trouble us, but our judgements about those things.— Epictetus
The cost of a thing is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.— Henry David Thoreau
For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.— Aristotle
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.— Aristotle
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing — and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.— Leo Tolstoy
All is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most.— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Greater virtues are required to bear good fortune than bad.— François de La Rochefoucauld