Responsibility Quotes

The husband who 'serves' his wife by continually yielding to her desires or her wishes is in fact asking her to do his job for him. He's ignoring his responsibility to lead.

Whether one was going to have a horse, or a dog, or a child, with that comes a great responsibility to raise them.

Deftly engineered. McCarthy challenges us all - not just engineers - to take responsibility for the ways in which we all increasingly engineer the world.

I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents.

It's not our church; it's God's - it's not our responsibility to run it!

Even if you are angry and you have reason to be angry, that doesn't give you license to be cruel. We have to take responsibility for ourselves and the way we act.

You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up on your looks, whether you are ugly or handsome, because it isn't an achievement.

I want to remind all Americans that the Senate has a very important responsibility to confirm only well- qualified individuals who will faithfully interpret the law and the Constitution.

You don’t care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid and bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility.

I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again.

The practice of democracy means that I, one person, one humble person, nevertheless feel some responsibility if the officials for whose election I was responsible go too far out of line.

We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.

There's responsibility, but there's also accountability. You have to be accountable for your actions. You have to stand at your locker when things are going bad.

I have a natural affinity with children and adults who can't accept adult responsibility.

We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary.

The worst kind of job to have is a job with lots of responsibility and very little power.

I feel I'll take on the responsibility of showing the world a whole different kind of Latin woman.

When it comes to little girls, God the father has nothing on father, the god. It's an awesome responsibility.

Not only must Americans admire Israel, there can be no doubt that we have an interest in, and special responsibility for, that valiant nation.

To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.

I am trying to teach my children to feel a responsibility for their fellow human beings and a sense of connection with ... the world around them.

Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it.

The moment you accept responsibility for EVERYTHING in your life, is the moment you gain the power to change ANYTHING in your life.

[On love:] I have no respect for anyone who says they've given up, or that they're not looking or that they're tired. That is to abrogate one's responsibility as a human being.

In a democracy, society must recognize that the individual has rights which are guaranteed, and the individual must recognize that he has responsibilities which are not to be evaded.

The Lord knew I would someday be charged with the priesthood responsibility for hundreds and even thousands of Heavenly Father's children who were in desperate temporal need.

I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. I'm neither for nor against. I'm a neutral.

Truth has her sterner responsibilities sooner or later in store for those who have known anything about her.

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

We share responsibility. It's important to have a good spouse; that's where I sympathize with single parents.

Orderly discipline and morale within an army was the responsibility of the Division Commander.

In speaking the truth of your experience to another, it will serve you well to realize that how they choose to respond is not your responsibility.

I don't take any responsibility for the lunatic fringes of my own religion.

To achieve major success in life - to achieve those things that are most important to you - you must assume 100% responsibility for your life. Nothing less will do.

A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.

As actors, it is our responsibility to read the newspapers, and then say what we read on television like it's our own opinion.

When you realize it's your responsibility to be a leader and create the world that you want to see, you have to do it.

There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.

Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.

Accepting responsibility is the fulcrum point for succeeding at anything.

I think it has as much to do with honoring my own voice as it does with feeling a responsibility to my readers or my daughters.

I only want the truth to be known, for everyone to take responsibility for their actions.

God makes provision for our holiness, but He gives us the responsibility of using those provisions.

With the recognition comes additional responsibility, because then we're no longer a one-shot. We're now part of the environment.

A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.

I'm no saint, but there are times when I simply cannot sanction freedom from responsibility.

I think the (brawl) made the league and the players more conscious of our responsibility to the public.

Politics must not be separated from religious values; religion must not be separated from political responsibility.

Your group has a right and responsibility to preside over your behavior and you have a responsibility to make that behavior in a manner that does not endanger the group.

The only responsibility I feel is to deliver something that's new or at least to attempt that. The real responsibility is to entertain and to try and make people laugh.