Responsibility Quotes

Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.

You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

The leader builds dispersed and diverse leadership - distributing leadership to the outermost edges of the circle to unleash the power of shared responsibility.

We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It's our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.

Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully is a moral responsibility.

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

I always feel a responsibility to the kids, to be somebody they could look up to.

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

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.

If you see someone taking responsibility, give that person authority. If you see someone looking for authority, watch out!

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

Methods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity rises into conscious responsibility.

Corporate Social Responsibility is a hard-edged business decision. Not because it is a nice thing to do or because people are forcing us to do it because it is good for our business

It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility for solving problems that belong to others.

Blame is a neat little device that you can use whenever you don't want to take responsibility for something in your life. Use it and you will avoid all risks and impede your own growth.

Did you know that every human being is created with a purpose and that they have a responsibility to not only discover their purpose but also to fulfill it?

It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its citizens.

Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.

Ive been in the legislative branch and now the executive branch and in each case I felt it was important we use our constitutional responsibilities to the fullest.

One of my responsibilities is to make sure that justice is done for our citizens . . . . I want this case to be completed. Until that happens, it will continue to burden our relationship.

The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it.

A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over.

Things change for the better when we take responsibility for our own thoughts, decisions and actions.

When everyone gets something for nothing, soon no one will have anything, because no one will be producing anything.

It's not pressure. It's responsibility We put it on ourselves.

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, it will not change you.

Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.

Stop talking about how you care about people. Show me something. Show me a policy. Show me a policy where you take responsibility.

Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility.

Children involved in project work are encouraged to serve the group needs and share responsibility for what's accomplished.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

The people of Zimbabwe have a responsibility to ensure that the government that they elected behaves properly.

There must be a corps that will battle for righteousness, for there are endless battalions who serve unrighteousness.

A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.

It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

You've got to take responsibility and to do everything in your power to get results. Hopefully players look at that and try and follow it.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Be compassionate, and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much a better place.

Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.

People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.

An essential aspect of maturing is developing the ability to take increasing responsibility for our own lives—to become increasingly self-directed

Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children.

Our responsibility begins with our imagination.