Responsibility Quotes
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It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities. (Quote by - Josiah Charles Stamp)
He treated me like a son and I let him down. I must take some responsibility for him getting the sack. I regret letting him down so much. (Quote by - Kieron Dyer)
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. (Quote by - John D. Rockefeller, Jr.)
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong (Quote by - Tryon Edwards )
Responsibility: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. (Quote by - Erica Jong)
We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on Earth to see it isn't ruined. (Quote by - Allen Johnson)
God has entrusted me with myself. (Quote by - Epictetus)
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. (Quote by - Richard Howard)
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again (Quote by - Edith Hamilton)
It's the responsibility of the media to look at the president with a microscope, but they go too far when they use a proctoscope. (Quote by - Richard Nixon)
A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility. (Quote by - William J. Bennett)
Power is only too happy to make football bear a diabolical responsibility for stupifying the masses (Quote by - Jean Baudrillard)
You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are. (Quote by - Jimmy Carter)
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. (Quote by - Les Brown )
As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes. (Quote by - Al D'Amato)
Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power. (Quote by - Josiah Gilbert Holland)
There can be no true response without responsibility; there can be no responsibility without response. (Quote by - Arthur Vogel)
Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight. (Quote by - William McFee)
When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself. (Quote by - Louis Nizer)
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. (Quote by - Orlando Bloom)
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying It got lost, and say I lost it. (Quote by - Sidney J. Harris)
I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic. (Quote by - Grace Abbott)
When I was young, it was very exciting to have a thought that we can change the world if we all collaborated, but I think it's not just an artist's responsibility as I think we all have responsibilities to different things, whatever we choose in our lives. (Quote by - Gates McFadden)
With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation. (Quote by - Edison Haines)
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed. (Quote by - William James)
Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow. (Quote by - Henry S. Haskins)
The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. (Quote by - Donald Rumsfeld)
For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands. (Quote by - David Brower)
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. (Quote by - Abigail Van Buren)
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. (Quote by - Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
What on earth is he going to get paid for? [on John Prescott keeping all his favours for zero departmental responsibility] (Quote by - Kate Hoey)
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach. (Quote by - William Ellery Channing)
The fact is that democracy brings with it a serious element of responsibility and all parties have to accept that fact to move forward. (Quote by - Daniel Greenberg)
Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them. (Quote by - Tom Stoppard)
As a member of Congress, I believe it is the responsibility of those elected to represent the people at every level of government to ensure that our government works to ensure that every person who wants gainful employment has it. (Quote by - Leonard Boswell)
Duty is what one expects from others. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves? (Quote by - Joy Adamson)
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. (Quote by - Joan Didion)
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. (Quote by - Max De Pree)
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more (Quote by - Anthony Robbins)
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. (Quote by - Marie Curie)
The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility. (Quote by - Giosué Borsi)
Whatever happens, take responsibility. (Quote by - Anthony Robbins)
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
It is hard to imagine a greater responsibility and honour [than being given this job by Gordon Brown which was a big surprise to everyone] (Quote by - Jacqui Smith)
The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top. (Quote by - O J Simpson)
Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular. (Quote by - Bernard M. Baruch)
No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility. (Quote by - Gerald W. Johnson)
You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it. (Quote by - Ken Keyes, Jr.)
You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together. (Quote by - Henry Ford Ii)
Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one. (Quote by - H.W. Lewis)
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. (Quote by - Alan Paton)
Responsibility is the price of freedom. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages. (Quote by - Ariel Dorfman)
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. (Quote by - Ivern Ball)
The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them. (Quote by - Walter S. Robertson)
Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. (Quote by - Gary Snyder)
Baby: An alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other. (Quote by - Elizabeth Adamson)
It's not about using the stage as a platform to preach. It's about people coming together with the responsibility to do something. Hopefully, they'll be galvanised. (Quote by - James Blunt)
Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone. (Quote by - Geoffrey Fisher)
With power comes great responsibilities. (Quote by - Superman's Uncle)
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom. (Quote by - Bob Dylan)
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. (Quote by - Barbara Grizzuti Harrison)
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. (Quote by - Albert Ellis)
The federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack. (Quote by - Bob Etheridge)
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. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities. (Quote by - Bill Maher)
Every right implies a responsibility. Every opportunity, an obligation. Every possession, a duty. (Quote by - John D Rockefeller)
My responsibility is always and everywhere the same: to see in my brother more even than the personality and manhood that are his. My task is always and everywhere the same: to see Christ himself. (Quote by - Trevor Huddleston)
I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it. (Quote by - Brendan Fraser)
Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fibre. (Quote by - Frank Crane)
I don't see the point of being a human being if you're not going to be responsible to your fellow human beings. Selfishness thefts away the human and reduces you to just a being. (Quote by - Candea Core-Starke)
Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility. (Quote by - William McFee)
We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights. (Quote by - Pearl Buck)
The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of children as individual property and think of them as the next generation, then we can realize we all have a role to play. (Quote by - Charlotte Davis Kasl)
The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man. (Quote by - Nelson Algren)
It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action. (Quote by - Stanley Milgram)
It is our responsibility as Americans to provide for the families of those who have died to defend our nation. (Quote by - Brian Baird)
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him. (Quote by - Booker T. Washington)
