Responsibility Quotes

"The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it"

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

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

James Cash Penney, Businessman

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

Barbara Jordan, Politician

"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

"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

"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

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

Michael Jordan, Athlete

"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

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

Joe Baca, 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

"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

"People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves"

Ivan Turgenev, Novelist

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

Bob Dylan, Musician

"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 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

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

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten""

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

"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

"Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

"I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions"

Enoch Powell, Politician

"The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms"

Neal Boortz, Journalist

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

William J. Clinton, President

"A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated"

Aaron Sorkin, Producer

"Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues"

Aaron Sorkin, Producer

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

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

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

"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

"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

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