Responsibility Quotes

The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.

In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.

People who do not take charge of their lives are lathi-charged by time.

It is both the duty and responsibility of the world's fortunate few to help fulfil the legitimate aspirations of the unfortunate many

Having an experience is taking part in the world. Taking part in the world is really about sharing responsibility.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.

Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds . . . to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.

The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

The responsibility for change...lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.

Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

I was constantly told and challenged to live my life as a warrior. As a warrior, you assume responsibility for yourself. The warrior humbles himself. And the warrior learns the power of giving.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature.

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

The only people who have quick answers don't have the responsibility of making the decisions.

We all have a moral obligation to leave this world a better place than the world that we've found.

The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.

It is our responsibility to learn to become emotionally intelligent. These are skills, they’re not easy, nature didn’t give them to us - we have to learn them.

A successful person realizes his personal responsibility for self-motivation. He starts with himself because he possesses the key to his own ignition switch.

Everything that happens to us is the result of what we ourselves have thought, said, or done.We alone are responsible for our lives.

The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.

Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?

It doesn't matter if you are a musician, a business leader, a president or a student. We all have a responsibility to give back.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.

The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol.

Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular gift in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed

No one can listen to your body for you... To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.

A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.

Responsibility is fostered by allowing children a voice and wherever indicated a choice in matters that affect them.

What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.

Globalisation makes it clear that social responsibility is required not only of governments, but of companies and individuals. All sources must interact in order to reach the MDGs.

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

Cleaning up the country cannot be the sole responsibility of sweepers. Do citizens have no role in this? We have to change this mindset.

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.

Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.

I have always looked for ways to give back because I think it's a responsibility we all share.

My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.