Responsibility Quotes

I feel a huge responsibility to anyone who's younger than me, in helping them take the road less traveled, or finding no road at all and blazing a new trail.

Freedom is first of all a responsibility before the God from whom we come.

I've learned a lot about the limits of what I can do, as an artist, or what I'm willing to do. It's a lot of responsibility to carry a show and to speak to people on different levels.

The Bible says that love is a responsibility. We are commanded to love. God doesn't ask us if we feel like it, He tells us in His Word that it is our responsibility to love.

Humans have more moral responsibility perhaps, because they are capable of reasoning.

I felt unworthy to play Jesus. I just accepted the responsibility and said, 'What actor wouldn't want to play this role?'

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.

Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities.

Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback - or a start of a new kind of development. [You have the responsibility to decide if you will see it as a bad setback or good start!]

Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment.

It's our responsibility to see to it that the good outweighs the evil and I am convinced beyond a doubt that today's Americans will do exactly that!

Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith.

Dogs are voiceless ... a critical part of having dogs is emotional responsibility: learning how to understand them and, when necessary, to speak and act on their behalf.

I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others

Only when we stop holding others accountable for all of our troubles can we truly be free.

I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

Growth that lasts does not threaten our children's future. It recognises that our planet is a gift that must be cherished. That tomorrow is our responsibility as much as today.

I have to admit that, until recently, I was somewhat wary of the (global) warming debate. I believe it is now our responsibility to take the lead on this issue.

I will tell you something else: it is a major responsibility not only of portraiture but of all human communication for each of us to help everyone else discover the best that is in him.

Journalism is the closest thing I have to a religion, because I believe deeply in the role and responsibility the journalists have to the people of a self-governing community.

When you are the first of anything, there is a bigger responsibility put on you.

But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.

God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do

You have GREATNESS within you, and responsibility to manifest that greatness!

It's a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.

I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it.

To become a courageous leader, you must realize that accepting responsibility is not optional - it's mandatory.

Move decisions out to the Cabinet and agencies. Strengthen them by moving responsibility, authority, and accountability their direction.

The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.

I believe it is the responsibility and duty of those in high-profile positions to give a voice to people whose voices cannot be heard.

We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.

First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government.

As a public official and being so highly visible, I have a responsibility to make it very clear that those people who will have cancer at one point in their lives will be able to function.

Western governments should bear their responsibilities toward the welfare of their people and not try to make oil producers pay the costs

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

He isn't a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.

My family responsibilities don't conflict with my career. Not at all.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

No matter how carefully you plan it, there are times when you suddenly find yourself a committee of one, in charge of lifting the entire world with a lever.

I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.

Taking responsibility means not blaming yourself. Anything that takes away your power or your pleasure makes you a victim. Don't make yourself a victim of yourself!

You face challenges and you have to make choices. You're weighing the necessary responsibility toward reality and authenticity and of course the need to create a compressed drama over two hours.

Delegation is the passing on of actions, actions, not the passing on of responsibility.

People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step.

There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility.

A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.

I support the recommendations made by the International Crisis Group. The primary responsibility is for Kosovo Albanians to demonstrate that their treatment of minorities is adequate.

The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think."