Responsibility Quotes
One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
We must cultivate a universal responsibility toward each other and extend it to the planet that we have to share
We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.
Only when we accept full responsibility for our lives will we have the confidence and courage to risk.
I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate.
Climbing is individual thing, it's a reflection of yourself. When you put up a route you're looking at yourself. If you chisel holds, it's your responsibility, nobody else's.
It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual.
Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.
A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.
Black power got to moving so fast that we miscalculated the fallout. I certainly have to take some of the responsibility of that; but there was no way we anticipated the response.
Those with visible responsibility for leadership are nearly always too visible to take responsibility for change.
The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.
I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.
The idea that men 'lose control' around a woman in a short skirt is insulting to men, completely relieves perpetrators of responsibility, and erases and ignores male victims.
Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more.
In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.
A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.
A gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose real uses will probably always be hidden from us.
All the people in Korea are cheering me like I'm a gold medalist or something, so I have a responsibility to my country.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
We must take responsibility for educating ourselves. Being part of a 'smart mob' doesn't guarantee that you're a responsible participant or collaborator.
I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it.
The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.
Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
The very act of accepting responsibility short-circuits and cancels out any negative emotions you may be experiencing.
The EU must take on new responsibilities. And these new responsibilities call for intensifying the integration process.
China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it.
Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.
I believe that today's players who are Christians feel that it's important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith.
My biggest dream is that my words will inspire heart, hope and personal responsibility in people around the globe long after my feet in these shoes aren't walking the planet.
The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead.
Scientific results that aren't reported might as well not exist. They're like the sound of one hand clapping. For scientists, communication isn't only a responsibility, it's our chief pleasure.
Leadership starts with understanding responsibility, not ability. Leadership is a Stewardship, not a show.
Women tend to immediately take responsibility if somebody messes up with both of us saying it's our fault. Men are quite happy for it to be your fault it seems like.
I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.
Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.
When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.
The international community has the moral responsibility of aiding a people under occupation; however, we will not beg for their money.
You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose — or you can decide now to choose them.