Quotes of: Individual-responsibility Keyword

A responsible choice is a choice that creates consequences that you are willing to assume responsibility for.

Gary Zukav

I'm responsible for what I say, but I'm not responsible about how people interpret my situation.

Juan Pablo Galavis

Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.

Viggo Mortensen

You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.

Victoria Principal

So you want to be famous? You want to inspire large groups of people? You want to be recognized and appreciated by thousands or even millions? Stop trying to do it by speaking to the masses. Do it by speaking to individuals. If what you have is truly...

Single Dad Laughing

Participation in the collective life of the polis both restrains the extraordinary individual and enlarges the ordinary individual, allowing him to participate in the extraordinary. An individual can achieve participatory excellence via the accomplis...

Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

The men her girlfriends dated were too often angry and muttering about oppression. One of the reasons she took to Skeet later in life was that he never went to that place; he believed with a firm positivity that he didn't need to waste time resenting...

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

Of course, to avoid getting stuck in that convo with someone you dislike or feel uncomfortable around, don't be passive, be proactive. Do not let them direct your interaction on their terms, do it on yours. Ask a Misdirection Question--something too ...

The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life

We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We need to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of...

Viktor E. Frankl

The ManAlive program teaches how the “angry man” is more often a response to experiencing a threat to their “image,” which triggers a fight or flight response. When the sympathetic nervous system gets triggered – breathing is more rapid, he...

Codependency & Men

A positive response to any situation is the key to the feeling of well-being. The more we practice it the easier it becomes. Gradually all automatic reactions are being replaced by a conscious response. When we know we are self-empowered, we take res...

Raphael Zernoff

Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into m...

Viktor E. Frankl

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Essential Drucker: Management, the Individual and Society

In God's world the individual counts. Therefore, Christian art should deal with the individual.

Art & the Bible

Legally speaking, there are no such things as 'public rights,' as distinguished from individual rights. Legally speaking, there is no such creature or thing as 'the public.'

Lysander Spooner

We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.

Emanuel Celler

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.

John Bolton

I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.

Roger Nash Baldwin

President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.

Ralph Hall

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.

Paul Ryan