Responsibility Quotes

"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

"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

"In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

"Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility"

Maria Callas, Musician

"Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

"But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act"

B. R. Ambedkar, Politician

"The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace"

Michael Jordan, Athlete

"You think I have the responsibilty... I have the responsibility to give the fans a good time!"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife"

Neil LaBute, Director

"I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me"

Julie Christie, Actress

"Our greatest privilege and responsibility as leaders of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs is to provide our veterans with a system that cares for their wounds and ensures that they have an opportunity to succeed"

Steve Buyer, Politician

"Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

"Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country"

William J. Clinton, President

"I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you"

Chris Matthews, Journalist

"It's a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

"Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it"

Donald Rumsfeld, Politician

"It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it"

Christine Gregoire, Politician

"I said that America's role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners"

Barack Obama, President

"I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film"

Orlando Bloom, Actor

"It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent"

Barack Obama, President

"I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear"

Barack Obama, President

"As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act"

Barack Obama, President

"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom"

Bob Dylan, Musician

"We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"We have a responsibility to promote stem cell research which could lead to treatments and cures for diseases affecting millions of Americans"

Louise Slaughter, Politician

"I've always found it not only easy, but enjoyable. It's necessary for us to reach out and I'm speaking for myself here. I certainly have a sense of responsibility to reach out to these people in the theatre who might look to someone like me for some guidance"

Harvey Keitel, Actor

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

Barbara Jordan, Politician

"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

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