Responsibility Quotes

When you forgive somebody else you accept the responsibility for your own future.

A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.

The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

When you're in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society.

Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.

A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.

When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others.

Power is responsibility. Don't take advantage. Respect.

To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn't hear, was an act so cold, so careless, it refused forgiveness.

If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

Parenting is a giant responsibility forever, so we need to learn how to drop the guilt and go easy on ourselves when we mess up.

The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.

Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.

In the end, the sum of my vices is all me.

As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame.

I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.

We do not owe any soul, except that which played the most vital role in our lives.

I don’t think Will Herondale and a sense of responsibility are even on speaking terms

If I was going to act irresponsibly, the least I could do was be responsible for it.

Guilt -- if there was any guilt -- spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything. . . . Perhaps at some point in time, at some spot in the world, a moment of responsibility existed.

Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.

No man can choose to serve only himself when he has something to offer his state. No one can put his own wishes above the needs of so many.

The irresponsible mother helped explain bella's maturity. She'd had to grow up early, to become the caretaker. That's why she didn't like being cared for- she felt it was her job.

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don't take counsel of your fears.

No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.

Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.

Now is the time to show maximum responsibility. It is not the time to pay off old scores nor for sterile partisan recriminations. It is time to re-establish a climate of calmness and mutual respect.

There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty.

The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.

And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of the intelligence they've received.

Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.

For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility.

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

Success, they taught me, is built on the foundation of courage, hard-work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears.

As the tech industry continues to grow and sprout successful startups across the country, it is important that we understand our responsibility to affect positive change in our communities.

Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility?

It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.

Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility.

I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.

There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air.

The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.

At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship.

Your sense of responsibility to others can never be excessive.

I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.