Responsibility Quotes

Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

In Islam, it is not just your right, but your responsibility to get education.

People who laugh so heartily at what they themselves have said, when it is not funny, dispense us accordingly, by taking upon themselves the responsibility for the mirth, from joining in it.

A sense that with the blessings that God bestowed upon this land, came the responsibility to make the world a better place.

[Nicolas Maduro] completely controls the judicial branch, controls the courts, has denied their basic rights and the responsibility that the legislative branch has in that country.

We are not born for ourselves alone.

The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the related Accra Agenda for Action, are useful policy instruments that set out the mutual responsibilities of donors and recipient countries.

I think that reaching out to kids that feel really isolated is a life saving gesture that we have a responsibility as older queers to do.

we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.

I devoutly believe that there is no difficulty between two people for which both are not responsible.

Even though modern life in many ways is nothing short of exhausting, we need to take responsibility for what is necessary to combat the stress and exhaustion of modern life.

Once the Western mind was disconnected from its sense of divine responsibility and genuine reverence towards nature, all hell broke loose. And that’s where we are now.

When the going gets tough, the prospect of delegating half your responsibilities to a willing volunteer, either to play a supporting role or take over the breadwinning, certainly holds allure.

Once you know something is wrong, you're responsible, whether you see it, or hear about it, and most particularly when you're a part of it.

I think people have to take responsibility for their own actions.

Occasionally, you feel like the only person able to win the match. So you take all the responsibility, you do too much, and you do something bad.

Some people are as fragile as butterflies and sensitive and it’s your responsibility not to destroy them. Just because you can

Uniqueness isn't a virtue. It's a responsibility.

He really did not care whether he survived or not, so long as it rendered him unconscious and absolved him of responsibility.

You got responsibilities when you’re a leader. You got a responsibility not to kill too many of your men. Or who’re you going to lead?

I played with a lot of great players before. They're all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform and to play well.

What my daughter does is my own responsibility, the way she represents herself.

Some of my favorite scenes aren't in the movie. Because you, at some point, realize that your responsibility as director is purely to the story. It's not to your pleasure.

Artists have always been the front line; that's part of our responsibility. But a lot of the big actors come out, they get slammed, and then they retreat.

I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that every child in American public schools receives.

Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.

I do understand that going out and promoting the movie is a big responsibility, and part of the reason they give me the job in the first place.

It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment. This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking into the matter.

We have women entering lower-paying career fields. Women are still, culturally, the primary caregivers for children, even though we would love to have fathers and mothers share responsibility.

U.S. Constitution declares rather unambiguously that Congress has the responsibility to “declare war.

In a culture that gives men irresponsible power and women powerless responsibility, the advancement of civilization cannot be a serious goal.

Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility.

I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.

By multiplying ironies, I evade commitments.

I just try and get the best out of an artist - we all have a responsibility to fill the world with awesome songs!

I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals.

I do hope that young men and women will start to think for themselves and start to take responsibility for their own thoughts.

I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.

Accept love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions.

I want my recipes to be clever examples of a bigger story, a celebration of resource responsibility and spending with purpose.

I feel that musicians are in a fellowship, and that fellowship is a responsibility.

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.

To give up responsibility for our lives is not healthy.

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Many critics have become de facto teachers. That is a lot of responsibility, and I think it should be wielded with care. Most people appreciate sincere guidance.

If people want me to go round and talk to governments and others then I feel that responsibility which is why I am on the road a good deal of the time and why I'm not slowing down.

I believe the previous administration shrunk from some of our responsibilities as a superpower and made the world a more dangerous place.

It is the responsibility of every human to know their actions and the consequences of their actions and to ask questions and to question things when they are wrong.

It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.