Responsibility Quotes And Sayings

Quotes And Sayings About Responsibility

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Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults.
~By Bobby McFerrin ~


Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
~By George Orwell ~


I think probably the one trait that would concern me about brother Bing would be his lack of responsibility.
~By Bob Crosby ~


I can't convince you to put the drink down if you're an alcoholic, you have to want to do that. I can't convince you to stop eating the cookies when you're a diabetic. You have to do that. And that takes responsibility.
~By Don Young ~


Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.
~By Arlo Guthrie ~


Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?
~By Joy Adamson ~


I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.
~By Fisher Stevens ~


Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
~By Tony Robbins ~


So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players.
~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~


And, if there was any responsibility in refusing to obey, he was willing to accept it.
~By John Bigelow ~


By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.
~By Franz Kafka ~


Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
~By Al Green ~


I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.
~By John Rowland ~


We share responsibility. It's important to have a good spouse; that's where I sympathize with single parents.
~By Hunter Tylo ~


Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time.
~By Joni Mitchell ~


We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility.
~By Judith Martin ~


I believe that the responsibility of the winemaker is to take that fruit and get it into the bottle as the most natural and purest expression of that vineyard, of the grape varietal or blend, and of the vintage.
~By Robert M. Parker, Jr. ~


True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. 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.
~By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison ~


Working together, they will dig out the truth and nothing but the truth about what happened in '99, to assign responsibility, and to look at the institutional failings.
~By Jose Ramos Horta ~


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.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~


I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone.
~By Ashley Judd ~


I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.
~By Carl Paladino ~


Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.
~By Arthur Henderson ~


The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.
~By Martin Heidegger ~


I am one of those people who quite enjoys responsibility.
~By Stuart Pearce ~


The responsibility of commanding the invasion fell to me, and the task was assigned to my Army Group.
~By Gerd von Rundstedt ~


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.
~By Brendan Fraser ~


I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations.
~By Gustav Heinemann ~


Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
~By William J. Clinton ~


As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly approach the piece from different points of view. That's what makes it interesting and keeps it alive.
~By Sarah Caldwell ~


I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters.
~By Jonathan Demme ~


The people gave me the responsibility of building the future of this nation. And I did it with honor.
~By Hosni Mubarak ~


Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
~By Gary Snyder ~


First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.
~By Frank McCourt ~


Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
~By Peter Drucker ~


I've no regrets. You take responsibility for your actions.
~By Ron Moody ~


In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.
~By Jonathan Krohn ~


Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, I'm not saying it in a moral sense. I'm just saying it in the sense of what is it that's really going to bring change.
~By Jared Diamond ~


I mean, I felt terrible. And in the beginning, I mean, I was completely devastated. I mean, can you imagine the kind of guilt that you would feel, and the responsibility?
~By Monica Lewinsky ~


The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly.
~By Melissa Bean ~


No, I'm not coaching. It's a huge responsibility to coach somebody.
~By Oksana Baiul ~


Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.
~By Tammy Bruce ~


When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us.
~By Joe Wilson ~


I take full responsibility for what happened at Enron. But saying that, I know in my mind that I did nothing criminal.
~By Kenneth Lay ~


We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.
~By Nancy Pelosi ~


Congress has a responsibility to make sure our taxpayer dollars are being spent responsibly and effectively, and at the same time, that our men and women in uniform have everything they need to carry out the War on Terror.
~By Larry Craig ~


I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.
~By Edward Zwick ~


We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount and, on the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs.
~By Doug Elmendorf ~


There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable.
~By Robin Day ~


Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well.
~By Michael N. Castle ~


I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.
~By Story Musgrave ~


Caring for our children and making sure they do not get addicted to drugs is all of our responsibility.
~By Joe Baca ~


I just think it's my responsibility as a human being and an entertainer to see the soldiers.
~By Coolio ~


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.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~


The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.
~By O. J. Simpson ~


Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts.
~By J. D. Hayworth ~


That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for.
~By Eric Carle ~


Responsibility educates.
~By Wendell Phillips ~


The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.
~By Rachel Maddow ~


The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides roughly ten weeks to accomplish this process.
~By Richard V. Allen ~


We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.
~By Wynton Marsalis ~


The earth is the Lord's. Psalm 24 basically says the earth is God's property. We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on earth to see it isn't ruined.
~By Allen Johnson ~


My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others.
~By Kevin Johnson ~


My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever.
~By Wilfred Burchett ~


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.
~By Clay Aiken ~


The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business.
~By Lee R. Raymond ~


Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
~By John D. Rockefeller ~


The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
~By Joan Didion ~


I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.
~By Kevyn Aucoin ~


We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true.
~By Jon Huntsman, Jr. ~


I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people.
~By Louie Anderson ~


I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.
~By Jodie Foster ~


That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We were not equipped or set up with personnel to recruit new Iraqi guards.
~By Janis Karpinski ~


Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.
~By Hu Shih ~


I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~


Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles.
~By Timothy Geithner ~


The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.
~By Georg Baselitz ~


The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead.
~By Joseph Smith, Jr. ~


Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?
~By Robert Casey ~


Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.
~By Nancy Pelosi ~


But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife.
~By Neil LaBute ~


But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.
~By Jeb Bush ~


I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
~By Yitzhak Rabin ~


We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.
~By Bob Ehrlich ~


The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
~By Max de Pree ~


Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow.
~By Dominique de Villepin ~


Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.
~By Bobby Rush ~


I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~


Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.
~By Tom Daschle ~


Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility.
~By Dennis Weaver ~


I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities.
~By Angela Davis ~


Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.
~By Alan Rickman ~


Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.
~By Tony Visconti ~


In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction.
~By Tom Paulin ~


Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their costs of doing business, but their competitors are not required to.
~By Paul Hawken ~


If the blame (if there is any) can be shifted from him to me, I shall help him and our cause by taking it. I desire, therefore, that all the responsibility that can be put upon me shall go there and shall remain there.
~By James Longstreet ~


Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.
~By Ron Chernow ~


So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
~By Walter Salles ~


My dogs are a priority and a big responsibility... but the payoffs are well worth it.
~By Will Estes ~


But I can't take responsibility for criminal conduct of somebody inside the company.
~By Kenneth Lay ~

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