英语名人名言: Responsibility 责任

　　You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading1 it today.

　　Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

　　To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

　　Alan Paton (1903 - 1988)

　　One can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion2 that goes with it.

　　Benvenuto Cellini (1500 - 1571)

　　I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

　　Bob Dylan (1941 - )

　　The perfect bureaucrat3 everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

　　Brooks4 Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun, 1951

　　There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous5 with destiny.

　　Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)

　　Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

　　G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962)

　　Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread6 it.

　　George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims7 for Revolutionists"

　　If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense8.

　　Holly9 Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992

　　So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination10.

　　J. B. S. Haldane (1892 - 1964)

　　There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering11 you in the wrong direction. The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, the responsibility lies with you.

　　J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008

　　In every child who is born under no matter what circumstances and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again, and in him, too, once more, and each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life: toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terrorism, and of God.

　　James Agee (1909 - 1955), Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

　　Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

　　Joan Didion (1934 - ), "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"

　　I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

　　John D. Rockefeller (1839 - 1937), Personal credo

　　Taking responsibility gives us power and control, because when we recognize the relationship between our choices and their consequences, then the next time we don’t like a consequence we can make a different choice.

　　Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint12 Custody13 with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011

　　The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

　　Oscar Arias14 Sanchez (1941 - )

　　We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable15 that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

　　Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)

　　The price of greatness is responsibility.

　　Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

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