Responsibility Quotes

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

James Cromwell, Actor

"Iraq has become, for better or for worse, the front on the war on terrorism, and so we've got to do this, and I can understand why congressmen and senators would take their responsibility seriously, but I think in the end we'll get the money"

Paul Bremer, Statesman

"When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again"

Edith Hamilton, Writer

"The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers"

Harvey Cushing, Scientist

"I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation"

Coretta Scott King, Activist

"The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed and I for one don't believe the Conservative Party would abuse that trust by selecting someone who did not have the goods to do the job, just for the sake of media coverage"

Adam Rickitt, Actor

"I support the recommendations made by the International Crisis Group. The primary responsibility is for Kosovo Albanians to demonstrate that their treatment of minorities is adequate"

Emma Bonino, Politician

"Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military"

Tom Lantos, Diplomat

"I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety"

Kevyn Aucoin, Artist

"Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"The price of greatness is responsibility"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"If the blame (if there is any) can be shifted from him to me, I shall help him and our cause by taking it. I desire, therefore, that all the responsibility that can be put upon me shall go there and shall remain there"

James Longstreet, Soldier

"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"I think being an entrepreneur is all about taking responsibility for yourself and taking chances"

Øystein Stray Spetalen, Businessman

"Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it"

John F. Kennedy, President

"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

"Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House"

John F. Kennedy, President

"It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision"

George Eliot, Author

"Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained"

Helen Keller, Author

"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility"

Peter Drucker, Businessman

"If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility"

Lyn Nofziger

"If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"Caring for our children and making sure they do not get addicted to drugs is all of our responsibility"

Joe Baca, Politician

"Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

"I think I've got a responsibility to be home a little bit more, be available to my family a little bit more and do some things to help make our country better. I don't know what that is right now, but we'll see"

Tony Dungy, Coach

"IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

"In dreams begins responsibility"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind"

Grover Cleveland, President

"A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother?"

Christian Bale, Actor

"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

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