Responsibility Quotes

With freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk has not ended yet.

We each have a covenant responsibility to be sensitive to the needs of others and serve as the Savior did-to reach out, bless, and uplift those around us.

All good men and women must take responsibility to create legacies that will take the next generation to a level we could only imagine.

It is a great privilege, as well as our responsibility, to pray for our government leaders.

I take my responsibilities very seriously.

Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.

The market has no morality

If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll get good things back. That's part of our responsibility as entertainers.

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.

Work well done is not only a responsibility to yourselves and society; it is also an emotional need.

A leader's responsibility is to cause a vision and mission to have tangible results in the real world.

I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Society works by putting opportunity and responsibility together.

Each individual has a universal responsibility to shape institutions to serve human needs.

Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.

Be the holder of your own Nature. It is a joyful responsibility.

We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.

"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."

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth.

I never wanted children, maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.

Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.

You have chosen the pathway to your present destination. The responsibility for your situation is yours.

Things don't change in a marriage until the spouse who is taking responsibility for a problem that is not hers decides to say or do something about it.

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.

Be quiet. Part of your responsibility is to honour the quiet inside yourself so you can hear the call.

As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.

We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.

The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.

If you contribute to other peoples happiness, you will find the true meaning of life. The key point is to have a genuine sense of universal responsibility

To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.

Real power comes when we stop holding others responsible for our pain, and we take responsibility for all our feelings.

I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection.

At the heart of mature masculinity is a sense of benevolent responsibility to lead, provide for, and protect women in ways appropriate to man's differing relationships.

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

we have become masters of projection—pushing the responsibility for our own thoughts outward so that the consequences of our thoughts become someone else's problem.

One of the most powerful things you can do is take responsibility for your life. Your choices. Your actions. Your Life.

I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.

One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs - blame and projection.

Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.

Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility.

I think I have a real interest in filmmaking, and it's nice when I can go and do that sometimes. Then it's also great to not do it and not have the responsibility .

I love to make a mistake. It is my only assurance that I cannot reasonably be expected to assume the responsibility of omniscience.

There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.

perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.

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.

The greater the responsibility, the greater the reward.