Responsibility Quotes

As it turned out, though, it was a lot easier to say that someone deserved to die for what they did than it was to take the responsibility to make that happen.

We don't have to reinvent the wheel, just go back to what it was in terms of how corporations acted in terms of their collective responsibility just 20 years ago.

Since when do corporations not have responsibility to the community? Since when to the not have responsibility to their employees?

If you can't handle the responsibility of a hit single, don't write one.

I would never abdicate, nor would I expect any other governor to abdicate, the responsibility to protect the people of my state.

Being wrong on facts, that's something you have a real responsibility to correct. But being wrong in the fun sports way is part of the interplay.

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

I desire no other inscription over my gravestone than: 'Here lies John Adams, who took upon himself the responsibility of peace with France in the year 1800'.

I think in an ideal world celebrities do have a responsibility in many different areas to be role models.

Leadership is the behavior each of us exerts when we take responsibility for our actions and their consequences.

Responsibility is the most important ability that a person can possess.

Leadership involves the heavy burden of responsibility, and the fear of getting it wrong can paralyze a leader.

All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others.

Leadership, like responsibility, is a voluntary act.

Realizing your potential as a leader is your responsibility.

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.

Our responsibility is one of decision, for to govern is to choose.

To each of us is entrusted the heavy responsibility of guiding the affairs of a democratic nation founded on Christian ideals.

The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do if we are going to succeed as a nation.

You can't have responsibility and you can't have us living up to our ideals unless it's based on a fairly common acceptance of truth, of what is true - what is the truth here?

And I kind of feel that I have a responsibility to the people that invest their time and money with me to show up on the set every day and do the best of which I am capable.

Freedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws never gave and a right which laws can never take away.

My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.

Man becomes virtually an automaton in the loss of his individuality and responsibility. He is the harp of a thousand strings played upon by a divine hand, but not a man!

The traditional managerial mind-set is an analytical mind-set. It is about creating accountability and defining responsibilities.

I related so much to the responsibility of being a parent, the responsibility of "did you screw your kid up," the responsibility of letting your own parents down.

The idea of making the industry live up to its legal responsibility is not going to die.

Churches are healthier and stronger if they assume responsibility both for financing their own programs and for stimulating their members to accept that responsibility.

Responsibility always stops at the president's desk.

[While] the primary responsibility, as we all acknowledge, (falls) with the family, ... Our homes, our families, our children's minds are being flooded by a tide of violence.

The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism.

Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products.

Those of us who have been blessed with worldly success have an even greater responsibility to make an impact with our time, talents, and resources.

It is alright to trust. But trust comes with responsibility.

You just have to be strong and don't be stupid; freedom of choice is a big responsibility.

I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters.

I think these large bureaucratic institutions are created in some way explicitly to inoculate anyone from actual responsibility, to create a much more diffuse and blameless kind of society.

With wealth comes responsibility.

It's not enough simply to wear the badge of corporate responsibility. Business must accept that real change is the only response to climate change and other environmental crises

I'm always happy. I like to have fun. During the game, I don't like showing my emotions, though. I'm all about winning the game. I take a lot of responsibility for that.

In fact, since no one's been interested in my work, I took the responsibility recently to invest in my own work, so I'm producing a concert that was done at the Vision Festival in May.

I don't really understand why I should be a role model but I know that children do look up to me, so it is my responsibility to motivate people and be inspiring. I hope that I can do that for kids.

For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.

We don't always help people by doing everything for them. That type of behavior can actually contribute to their problems because it helps then never take responsibility on their own.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

I feel the responsibility to make things which on some level have something positive to say.

Phil Hicks was the guy that was in the ROTC, that was going to go into the Vietnam War and thought that was the responsibility of the citizen.

I played Iris Murdoch, who had not long died, and I felt the responsibility very heavy on my shoulders.

He was the firstborn Bridgerton of a firstborn Bridgerton of a firstborn Bridgerton eight times over. He had a dynastic responsibility to be fruitful and multiply.