Responsibility Quotes

Each and every human being on Earth has both the responsibility and the privilege of viewing themselves as Divine beings with the power to bring about peace.

At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again. The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but are just incapable of facing the responsibilities of marriage.

The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.

I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities.

Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts.

The least difficult thing a foreign missionary has to learn is the language; the part of her work which she has the most reason to dread is its responsibility.

When you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it.

I am the one who got myself fat, who did all the eating. So I had to take full responsibility for it.

You are embarking on the greatest adventure of your life - to improve your self-image, to create more meaning in your life and in the lives of others. This is your responsibility.

We need to get our sons and daughters home and their responsibility for the security of Iraq needs to be assumed by Iraqis who will stand up and toe the line for their countries.

Developed countries should support developing countries in tackling climate change. This not only is their responsibility, but also serves their long-term interests.

China and the United States have major influence in international affairs and shoulder important responsibilities in upholding world peace and promoting common development.

Wait for a miracle and it will never come. Take responsibility and you'll invite a miracle.

My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

Evading responsibility can lead to a life long pattern of criminal behavior.

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

While carrying responsibilities, never forget to smile.

If you would like to live in a community in which you may have pride, then dedicate yourself in a spirit of humility and your responsibilities in that community.

Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life.

You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.

Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children.

Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too much responsibility from our children, leaving them too little room for discovery

I always feel a responsibility to the people I write about. I feel obligated to portray them in the way they feel is proper.

Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle.

It's just like Yeats said. In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise.

I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility.

Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don't come along very often so I thought, 'Why not?'

Does a human being know the responsibility he has to himself and to all of mankind

But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility.

It would be dangerous territory if I wasn't practising what I preach which is to always accept responsibility, always accept the consequences of your actions.

I wish we did have responsibility for the hair. I have been screwed up by the hair on many occasions.

It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it.

I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.

My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others.

The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic -- to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, "Do you like it? If you don't like it, change it.

Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.

The word responsibility is right, and doing everything you can to educate yourself and learn and be aware.

The vast majority of the American people are hard-working taxpayers who take responsibility for their families, go to work every day, they pay their mortgage on time, they volunteer in the community.

I take my mentoring responsibilities very seriously.

Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.

To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge.

No, it is not because woman is lacking in responsibility, but because she has too much of the latter that she demands to know how to prevent conception.

Everybody has some responsibility. The point is, how are we going to fix it? And you don't fix it simply by blaming the other guy, or blaming the past.