Responsibility Quotes

My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.

In every position that I've been in, there have been naysayers who don't believe I'm qualified or who don't believe I can do the work. And I feel a special responsibility to prove them wrong.

Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.

We fit the universe through our brains and it comes out in the form of nothing less than poetry. We have a responsibility to awe.

The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.

Today, we are shapers of the world of tomorrow. That is plain truth. There is no way we can duck the responsibility, and there is no reason why we should.

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.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

Do not ask for less responsibility to be free and relaxed-ask for more strength!

The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their lives.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

You have a responsibility for the way you make the audience feel, and I want them to feel uncomfortable.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

Obedience is your responsibility, the outcome is God's!

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.

It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news.

To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.

More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance.

The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government.

Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them

I take responsibility for what happened at Enron, both good and bad. But I cannot take responsibility for criminal conduct that I was unaware of.

Each generation must assume the responsibility of securing their manhood, their womanhood, the definition of their being on earth that in the final analysis is nationhood.

Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.

What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis himself. He is not responsible to either a political party or a ruler.

With Stewart International Airport located here, the New Windsor Police Department has an added responsibility to take anti-terrorism precautions while protecting our area.

It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain

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

All we have to do to create the future is to change the nature of our conversations, to go from blame to ownership, and from bargaining to commitment, and from problem solving to possibility.

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

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

Healing comes from taking responsibility: to realize that it is you - and no one else - that creates your thoughts, your feelings, and your actions.

There cannot be love without trust and there cannot be trust unless we take the responsibility to act in a way that people can trust us.

The circle is a reminder that each moment is not just the present, but is inclusive of our gratitude to the past and our responsibility to the future.

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

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say

Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.

Everything changes for the better when you take ownership of your own problems.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.

Grace does not cancel out our responsibility or accountability for the things God has given us to do.

Divide responsibility and nobody is responsible.

I feel I have a responsibility to myself, a responsibility to explain where we're coming from. Because a song or the performance of a song is a lot like a work of art.

We will seek to implement specific changes in the manufacturing and distribution practices to promote more responsibility and accountability.

Love can only exist where freedom and responsibility are operating.

It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity.

I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.