Terry Pratchett Quotes

Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.

There is no one that can share your responsibility. It it is your responsibility you must carry it on and you must be responsible for your actions. At the end of the day we all are being challenged, sooner or later, by our destiny. And it's up to us to make all the difference in this life. If not you, who else?

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

Nobody's going to help me when I get in that ring. That's how I like it: the responsibility's on me, and whatever happens is down to me, nobody else.

People are always saying,'They'll take care of it. The government'll--Don't worry, they'll--' 'They' who? It starts with us. It's us. Or else it'll never be done...

You must accept responsibility for your actions. This doesn't include reactions, interactions or transactions if you're thinkin' loophole.

Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.

Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something.

I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure.

Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

I have always looked for ways to give back because I think it's a responsibility we all share.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.

We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.

A heck of a lot more accountability comes from individuals or the church doing it than the government, that signs off on helping people at 5 o'clock, because it comes from the heart, not from a badge or a mandate.

When government tries to serve as a parent or teacher or a moral guide, individuals may be tempted to discard their own sense of responsibility, to argue that only government must help people in need. If we've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.

The President can't deliver us. I'm not a package to be picked up at a department store.

People say that the government should be doing this Yeah, but the government is not doing this. So we do.

Anything which tends to bring a greater sense of responsibility to individuals should be encouraged.

Freedom requires civil responsibility.

Everyone has to have a sense of duty. A duty to society, to their family. I mean, you name it.

I don't believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

I frequently say that I never share blame, I never share credit, and I never share desserts!