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If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Success, Responsibility, Assuming

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Responsibility, Pride, Men
"'Terre des Hommes' ('Wind, Sand and Stars')". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, translated by Lewis Galantière. Chapter II: "The Men", 1939.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Life, Dog, Responsibility
"The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (Ch. XXI), 1943.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Fear, Business, Responsibility
Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Morning, Responsibility, Discipline

Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Responsibility, Genius, Want
Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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