Responsibility Quotes

"A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good"

"We as a Congress have a moral obligation to bring justice to the families of these victims. Furthermore, as a society based on laws, we have a responsibility to ensure that criminals don't go unpunished"

Bob Filner, Politician

"Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility"

James Levine, Musician

"We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks"

Ron Chernow, Author

"It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever"

Helena Bonham Carter, Actress

"Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility"

Michael Korda, Novelist

"Responsibility educates"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"You learn to rely on a few basic movements and use your voice to the greatest extent possible to convey your emotions. So there was a technical challenge there and a responsibility to create a character from behind the mask"

Helena Bonham Carter, Actress

"Caring for our seniors is perhaps the greatest responsibility we have. Those who walked before us have given so much and made possible the life we all enjoy"

John Hoeven, Politician

"I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility"

Talib Kweli, Musician

"So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well"

Neville Marriner, Musician

"What we try to say is that it doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch"

Martin Sheen, Actor

"A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players"

Knute Rockne, Coach

"So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well"

Alphonso Jackson, Public Servant

"Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems"

Gerry Adams, Politician

"To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of"

Jeffery Deaver, Writer

"Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"I think that what scares me more than getting fat during pregnancy is the responsibility of a child"

Carol Alt, Model

"By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind"

Calvin Coolidge, President

"I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other"

Jerome K. Jerome, Author

"A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other"

Ronald Knox, Theologian

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

Horst Koehler, Statesman

"There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"Roger Corman exploited all of the young people who worked for him, but he really gave you responsibility and opportunity. So it was kind of a fair deal"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome"

Thomas E. Mann, Sociologist

"Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men"

Bede Griffiths, Clergyman

"Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

"I love watching my brothers raise their kids and not have to do it for myself and have the responsibility"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

"We have a responsibility to protect the Earth for future generations. The environment is God's gift to everyone, and in our use of it, we have a responsibility towards the poor, towards future generations, and towards humanity as a whole"

Pope Francis, Pope

"A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society"

Joseph Ratzinger, Clergyman

"But I can't take responsibility for criminal conduct of somebody inside the company"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

"We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges"

Ryan Reynolds, Actor

"The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility"

Rachel Maddow, Journalist

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