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Tag Tag Personal responsibility
’Tis a shame that your family is an honor to you! You ought to be an honor to your family.
Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard’s Almanack · 1732-1758

Quotes

“We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.”

Richard Feynman · Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, 1985 · Primary source

“I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed, and had done the very best you could.”

Eleanor Roosevelt · My Day, 1935-1962 · Primary source

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