It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Life's heaviest burden is to have nothing to carry.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will — his personal responsibility.
Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing… they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.
More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man — he — himself.
Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than what he ought to expect from them.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.
No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.
No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.
No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Nobody can do it for you.
Nothing happens by itself. It all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
One must care about a world one will not see.
One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.
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