Responsibility Quotes

I'm of the opinion that Angela Merkel is a responsible politician, a politician who has a sense of responsibility for Europe and not only for Germany or for the - her political party.

There is a great responsibility on the team to perform well, because our supporters and the whole of the country are expecting us to do just that.

Companies are increasingly taking responsibility for the safety of the food they sell, rather than risk their brand on a large recall.

And I didn't know what that meant for a long time. It was only when I began to travel and look and live beyond my home that I understand my responsibility to others.

Take personal responsibility. A lot of people go, 'Well, I'll get a dog because I have a kid and a kid needs a dog.' And it doesn't work out for that dog and the dog is on the street.

Traditionalists like me believe the USA has become strong because of its core values, the freedom, individual responsibility and institutions like traditional marriage, which foster common goals.

Geoff Nelder's ARIA has the right stuff. He makes us ask the most important question in science fiction-the one about the true limits of personal responsibility.

Taking responsibility as a co-creator with God presupposes a basic understanding of how creation works.

Why mundanes always insist on taking responsibility for things that aren't their fault is a mystery to me. You didn't force that cocktail down his idiotic throat." -Jace, pg.241-

I feel a sense of responsibility," said Jordan. "And where is this feeling located? In your pants, perhaps?

We're just trying to figure out what being a good citizen is, what participating in a democracy is, what taking responsibility for being an American citizen in a global context means to us.

If all you've got to do is a couple of lines, dear Jesus, don't let them down. Other people are taking responsibility.

Despite their good intentions, today's businesses are missing an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives - to do good and make money simultaneously.

I live in a universe in which blame doesn't exist. I don't believe in being at fault; I believe in taking responsibility for your actions. If I do something wrong, I take responsibility for it.

Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility.

Take responsibility for making conscious choices.

As designers we have a great responsibility.

It is the least represented among us who will be the most affected first. We have a moral responsibility to protect them.

I've got four kids to feed and a wife to provide for. It's a worry but a great responsibility as well and one I relish.

Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

I know that given great responsibility men sometimes change, but Mr. Nixon's Presidency would worry me.

Life is moral responsibility.

The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

Enlightenment requires discipline, balance, knowledge, power, happiness and a sense of responsibility and sacrifice, being able to do things with your life that you would not have done otherwise.

I have a deep sense of responsibility to my country and Greek people.

I take personal responsibility for everything I say.

One thing you had to learn [after the presidency] was that you no longer had the sense of responsibility that became ingrained in your system.

Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility.

Maybe the body is taking responsibility where the mind is not. It's scrapbooking for us.

For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.

Under a neoliberal regime, the language of authority, power and command is divorced from ethics, social responsibility, critical analysis and social costs.

He provides a vision. He often reminds countries of their responsibilities in a way that makes it seem not only like a legal obligation but a moral responsibility.

Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

The main social responsibility for a company is to win.

Take responsibility about what you have on your TV, and about what you are out there supporting.

Every human must take responsibility for his actions.

The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.

Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility.

I'm the youngest in a family where I didn't have to take responsibility for much.

I know that being seen as a role model means taking responsibility for all my actions. I am human, and of course, sometimes I make mistakes. But I promise that when I fall, I get back up.

I take great responsibility in any character that I play.

Jack Geiger, for example, was a leader of that movement. He was part of Physicians for Social Responsibility, which was kind of one of the ways that I worked my way into social activism in medicine.

Any real accomplishment in the world reflects the efforts of a lot of people. . . . For an individual to claim personal responsibility was the height of arrogance.

The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil.

The central premise of great leadership is recognizes that fundamental fact, that not of us are fixed entities, and taking responsibility for making sure that we bring out our people's best selves.

I have to take responsibility for anything that happened within its businesses.

The greatest threats to North Dakota are policies coming out of Washington, D.C. I see it every day and feel a sense of responsibility to do something about it.

A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.

Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility.