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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Theodore Roosevelt, 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

"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

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

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

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

Paul Gascoigne, Athlete

"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

"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

"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

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

Julie Christie, Actress

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"I believe that we all have a responsibility to take care of our planet and to protect the natural world for future generations"

Liv Arnesen, Explorer

"Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness"

Fred Woodworth

"As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly approach the piece from different points of view. That's what makes it interesting and keeps it alive"

Sarah Caldwell, Celebrity

"I wish we did have responsibility for the hair. I have been screwed up by the hair on many occasions"

Julie Harris, Actress

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

Hermann Hesse, Novelist

"In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection"

Carol Gilligan, Psychologist

"Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being"

Evan Bayh, Politician

"Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life"

James Cromwell, Actor

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