Responsibility Quotes

A responsible choice is a choice that creates consequences that you are willing to assume responsibility for.

It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.

Nobody can do everything well, so learn how to delegate responsibility to other winners and then hold them accountable for their decisions.

Obviously you have a responsibility - one would like to think there is such a thing as ethics in filmmaking.

Countries are not like financial markets. Social change cannot be executed as swiftly as credit-default swaps. You cannot sell short on social commitments and practical responsibilities.

We stand united, facing the big responsibility to change our country into a nation of justice, solidarity, humanity and green development.

Your first responsibility is to yourself and to your own goodness of heart.

Our first responsibility in all things is to preserve our goodness of heart - then and only then act.

In seventeen of His thirty-seven parables, Jesus dealt with property and man's responsibility for using it wisely.

Where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me.

I have made a lot of tactical decisions that historians will look back and say: He shouldn't have done that. He shouldn't have made that decision. And I'll take responsibility for them. I'm human.

I would never sacrifice my individual beliefs as a citizen to my corporate responsibilities.

Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.

It is a responsibility we perceive from the entire international community to protect the stability of the single currency as well as the European frame work.

Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.

The responsibility of carrying and bringing a new life into this world is one that cannot be taken lightly.

I voted, always vote. It's very important to me. My kids, I take them with me since they were little, so they realize it's a responsibility.

Power-over is amoral. Power-to is responsibility.

I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life.

There is rampant among us a spirit of criticism. Men and women who carry heavy responsibility do not need criticism, they need encouragement.

The world is our responsibility. We cannot evade it.

[Tomas] Jefferson believed that the United States was a chosen nation with a special responsibility to spread democracy around the world.

Giving is a responsibility. It is an opportunity. And it is a blessing for every follower of Jesus Christ.

I've learned it's a human responsibility to create fun, not just wait for it.

Companies have a responsibility to train and retrain their employees.

I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.

I really believe that in the larger sense, not only today but at all times, you only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

I think my favourite thing is understanding the responsibility of raising two human beings and putting them into the world.

When declaring your rights, don't forget your responsibilities.

After all, the world is not our handiwork, and we are not responsible for what goes on in it, save within very narrow limits.

How we live our lives gives those we love permission to do the same. That is a power and a responsibility that we can never take lightly.

Once someone is in your family orbit, there's a mutual responsibility, and whatever happens to them happens to you.

When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.

Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside.

I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility.

We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.

An actors most important responsibility is to know lines well.

I don't want this office, this responsibility, any longer, even if you want me. Find the strongest and most able and God bless you. Good-bye.

I trust people, and I respect their areas of responsibility.

I think that's just one type of leadership, which is the type I have: the need to find a new way and take responsibility for other people.

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

My mother let me know that we're all connected. If some of us become more affluent it's not because we're better or even smarter people - we have a responsibility to ourselves to be a good boy.

The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.

I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society.

To provide for the future is a part of one's responsibility in life; and the world has scant consideration for the man who neglects it.

Each individual has a responsibility to get out of bed, learn their ABCs, learn your math tables, not use race and racism as an excuse.

Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.

Many women are now holding posts of grave responsibility in city and country and state and nation, and their number must be greatly increased.

It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, for the few, and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity.

Our responsibility as citizens is to keep doing our part.