Responsibility Quotes

"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

"I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize"

Jodie Foster, Actress

"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

"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

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

Abraham Lincoln, President

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

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"The price of greatness is responsibility"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

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

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

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

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Dan Quayle, Vice President

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

Peter Drucker, Businessman

"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

"Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

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

Henry B. Adams, Historian

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

George Eliot, Author

"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

"In dreams begins responsibility"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

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