Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.
~By Leon Kass ~
Conversion is a very, very important part of what you are doing. We will have a responsibility to report to Heavenly Father regarding those we bring into the Church.
~By Richard G. Scott ~
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 ~
The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
~By Oded Fehr ~
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.
~By Ed Bradley ~
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 ~
I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you.
~By Chris Matthews ~
We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is developing at a tremendous rate, and this decision means that we can now prepare to welcome the world's best athletes to a fascinating place.
~By Otto Schily ~
I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.
~By Diana Ross ~
In that match for Holland I asked for a big responsibility, I got it and I dealt with it. I played well, I scored goals and the team qualified for the Euro 2004 finals. It was a big night and an important moment for Holland.
~By Ruud van Nistelrooy ~
Today's message to Baghdad is very clear: the UN Security Council resolution expresses the unity and determination of the entire international community to assume its collective responsibility.
~By Javier Solana ~
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 ~
Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children.
~By John Doolittle ~
Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources.
~By Lillian Russell ~
I played with a lot of great players before. They're all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform and to play well.
~By Mark Messier ~
Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.
~By William Wells Brown ~
At one time I thought he wanted to be an actor. He had certain qualifications, including no money and a total lack of responsibility.
~By Hedda Hopper ~
Clean air is a basic right. The responsibility to ensure that falls to Congress and the president.
~By Thomas Carper ~
A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens.
~By Peter DeFazio ~
An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.
~By Edwin Meese ~
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 ~
As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.
~By Al D'Amato ~
While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate.
~By Kathe Kollwitz ~
The people gave me the responsibility of building the future of this nation. And I did it with honor.
~By Hosni Mubarak ~
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.
~By Leo Tolstoy ~
Although I agree that wild horses are a symbol of the American West, I also believe that it is the responsibility of Congress to ensure that these animals are managed, protected, and controlled in an effective manner.
~By Jon Porter ~
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 ~
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
~By Leo Buscaglia ~
I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.
~By Grover Cleveland ~
I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.
~By Tony Blair ~
I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them.
~By Deborah Cox ~
It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it.
~By Wilfrid Laurier ~
I felt unworthy to play Jesus. I just accepted the responsibility and said, 'What actor wouldn't want to play this role?'
~By Jim Caviezel ~
And I kind of feel that I have a responsibility to the people that invest their time and money with me to show up on the set every day and do the best of which I am capable.
~By John Frankenheimer ~
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
~By Wendell Berry ~
For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.
~By Kate Bush ~
I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
~By Talib Kweli ~
It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.
~By Bainbridge Colby ~
On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.
~By Fredrik Bajer ~
Men don't want any responsibility, and neither do I.
~By Julie Christie ~
I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.
~By Ann Richards ~
Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well.
~By Neville Marriner ~
True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
~By Philip Pullman ~
Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility.
~By James Levine ~
You can only avoid responsibility for so long. The catalyst ended up being the law coming down and finally saying, 'You guys suspended judgement and that's fine, because we're not.'
~By Rosario Dawson ~
I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders.
~By Tracey Gold ~
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 ~
I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.
~By Jodie Foster ~
As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
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. ~
To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.
~By David Byrne ~
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 ~
Our greatest privilege and responsibility as leaders of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs is to provide our veterans with a system that cares for their wounds and ensures that they have an opportunity to succeed.
~By Steve Buyer ~
Responsibility educates.
~By Wendell Phillips ~
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 ~
I do not mean that you could continue to do this with propriety or even with safety; I merely assert that the power is, in point of fact, in your hands. And for such a power, what a responsibility to God and man!
~By Jay Alan Sekulow ~
The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.
~By Brian Tracy ~
Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more.
~By Jody Watley ~
A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
~By Joseph Ratzinger ~
Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
~By Sally Ride ~
I'm doing it, I took responsibility in my country and I've done it with my bare hands.
~By Alexis Arguello ~
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
~By George Orwell ~
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.
~By Sheri S. Tepper ~
I am one of those people who quite enjoys responsibility.
~By Stuart Pearce ~
Caring for our children and making sure they do not get addicted to drugs is all of our responsibility.
~By Joe Baca ~
There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.
~By James D'arcy ~
And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility.
~By Daniel Greenberg ~
People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.
~By Brooks Atkinson ~
I do feel I have a responsibility to the youths. For real.
~By Sean Paul ~
Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
~By Bede Griffiths ~
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.
~By Charles Evers ~
A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.
~By Ben Stein ~
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
~By Thomas Szasz ~
If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.
~By Lewis Thomas ~
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 ~
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
~By Les Brown ~
We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.
~By Newt Gingrich ~
I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.
~By Andy Garcia ~
Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.
~By David Ortiz ~
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 ~
In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.
~By Carol Gilligan ~
Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
~By Ruth Bader Ginsburg ~
I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
~By Kate Moss ~
Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference.
~By Carrie P. Meek ~
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 person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well.
~By Kevin Costner ~
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.
~By Jeffery Deaver ~
Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.
~By Ron Chernow ~
We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.
~By Stephen Harper ~
And it's not a finger-pointing issue to me; I take as much responsibility as I can. It was more just me not really knowing what I wanted to do and how to get it done.
~By Justin Guarini ~
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 ~
Too many leaders act as if the sheep... their people... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.
~By Ken Blanchard ~
I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility.
~By Anthony Michael Hall ~
It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.
~By David Duchovny ~
As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
~By Barack Obama ~
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