Responsibility Quotes: Inspiring Words on Accountability & Ownership

"The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man"

"We cannot afford to lose any more species to extinction. It is our responsibility to protect and preserve the natural world for future generations"

Peter Knights, Activist

"Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other"

Ronald Reagan, President

"I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue to work to assert the role of this body in carrying out this grave responsibility"

Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician

"Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence"

Thomas Merton, Author

"A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom"

Bob Dylan, Musician

"Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity"

Nadine Gordimer, Novelist

"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility"

G. M. Trevelyan, Historian

"True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility"

Philip Pullman, Writer

"And, if there was any responsibility in refusing to obey, he was willing to accept it"

John Bigelow, Lawyer

"Shareholder activism is not a privilege - it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own part of that company and we are partly responsible for how that company progresses. If we believe there is something going wrong with the company, then we, as shareholders, must become active and vocal"

Mark Mobius, Businessman

"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future"

John F. Kennedy, President

"A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

"Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility"

George Orwell, Author

"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that"

David Byrne, Musician

"The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"The presidency is an independent office and the Irish people whom I appreciate so much and I take with such responsibility have given a very clear mandate on a very clear set of ideas to me, as the ninth president"

Michael D. Higgins, Politician

"We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page"

Barack Obama, President

"My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me. What I do with it is up to me"

Mary J. Blige, Musician

"At one time I thought he wanted to be an actor. He had certain qualifications, including no money and a total lack of responsibility"

Hedda Hopper, Actress

"I'm doing it, I took responsibility in my country and I've done it with my bare hands"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture"

Charles W. Pickering, Judge

"I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge responsibility to the fans of this incredible book and I don't take it lightly. I will give everything I have to these movies and to this role to make it worthy of Suzanne Collins' masterpiece"

Jennifer Lawrence, Actress

"I take responsibility for myself and what I do now"

Paul Gascoigne, Athlete

"The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"Men don't want any responsibility, and neither do I"

Julie Christie, Actress

"As a public official and being so highly visible, I have a responsibility to make it very clear that those people who will have cancer at one point in their lives will be able to function"

Lindy Boggs, Politician

"And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility"

Alphonso Jackson, Public Servant

"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"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace"

Frank B. Kellogg, Politician

"To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do"

Jim Bakker, Celebrity

"Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader"

Hermann Hesse, Novelist

"I take full responsibility for what happened at Enron. But saying that, I know in my mind that I did nothing criminal"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

"The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope"

Wendell Berry, Poet

"And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you"

John Irving, Novelist

"Although I agree that wild horses are a symbol of the American West, I also believe that it is the responsibility of Congress to ensure that these animals are managed, protected, and controlled in an effective manner"

Jon Porter, Politician

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