Responsibility Quotes
Responsibility Quotes and Sayings
Here are some of the greatest responsibility quotes.
I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility, and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish, without the help and support of the woman I love.
Edward VIII
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Albert Einstein
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
Booker T. Washington
You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.
Jimmy Carter
Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government.
Thomas Jefferson
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility.
William McFee
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan Didion
There can be no true response without responsibility; there can be no responsibility without response.
Arthur Vogel
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Anthony Robbins
It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.
Stanley Milgram
My chief responsibilities have been described as soliciting and procuring. The illegal variety would be easier. And it certainly would be more profitable.
Rebecca Greer
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
Stanley Milgram
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Jim Rohn
Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more.
Gail Hamilton
You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
Martin Luther
Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
Jonas Salk
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
Napoleon Hill
I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
John Enoch Powell
Responsibility always exceeds authority.
Unknown
As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
Barack Obama
Man has responsibility, not power.
Unknown
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Napoleon Hill
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan
Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
John F. Kennedy
The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
Michael Jordan
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
Thomas Merton
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
Frank Lloyd Wright
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.
Oprah Winfrey
Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems.
Gerry Adams
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
Albert Schweitzer
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
Booker T. Washington
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.
Leo Tolstoy
I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model.
Clay Aiken
We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.
Vladimir Putin
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce
I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. don't take counsel of your fears.
Thomas S. Monson
As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.
Bill Hicks
The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
Daniel Webster
The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.
Robert Baden-Powell
There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.
James Cash Penney
I am the one who got myself fat, who did all the eating. So I had to take full responsibility for it.
Kirstie Alley
Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try to come to terms with it by not thinking about it.
Joe Strummer
Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.
Alan Rickman
I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.
Orlando Bloom
Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
Omar Bongo
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
James Baldwin
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
Theodor Adorno
The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases.
David Suzuki
It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.
William Pollard
Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
Sally Ride
To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.
Gerald Vann
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
Hermann Hesse
It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action.
Edward Livingston
The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business.
Lee R. Raymond
I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.
Lakhdar Brahimi
IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device.
Tim Berners-Lee
We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up.
Charles Evers
If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.
Christiane Amanpour
Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.
Ron Chernow
Responsibility educates.
Wendell Phillips
To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of.
Jeffery Deaver
Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert.
Robert Fripp
Globalisation makes it clear that social responsibility is required not only of governments, but of companies and individuals. All sources must interact in order to reach the MDGs.
Anna Lindh
Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility.
James Levine
Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.
John Charles Polanyi
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