Responsibility Quotes

"We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond"

Robert Baden-Powell, Soldier

"An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual"

Robert Baden-Powell, Soldier

"For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands"

David R. Brower, Environmentalist

"My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst"

Joseph Stiglitz, Economist

"In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction"

Tom Paulin, Poet

"Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States"

Caleb Cushing, Diplomat

"I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility"

Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian

"In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays"

Jacques Derrida, Philosopher

"The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does"

Georg Baselitz, Artist

"The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility"

Oded Fehr, Actor

"The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top"

O. J. Simpson, Athlete

"The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior"

M. Scott Peck, Psychologist

"'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions"

Antony Jay, Writer

"While people out there on the spot certainly have to be held accountable for what they've done personally, the chain of command responsibility for this strikes me as just as important and should be dealt with"

William Odom, Soldier

"Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me"

Mira Sorvino, Actress

"That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for"

Eric Carle, Author

"Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility"

Pat Mastelotto, Musician

"I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations"

Gustav Heinemann, Politician

"For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions"

Margaret J. Wheatley, Writer

"I just think it's my responsibility as a human being and an entertainer to see the soldiers"

Coolio, Musician

"For years now I have been talking about personal responsibility and accountability, both in our private lives and in the halls of government. Those are important principles here in Idaho, and they will form the basis of this administration"

Butch Otter, Politician

"As a member of Congress, I believe it is the responsibility of those elected to represent the people at every level of government to ensure that our government works to ensure that every person who wants gainful employment has it"

Leonard Boswell, Politician

"You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility"

Judith Martin, Author

"We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live"

Jim Clyburn, Politician

"As the President reviewed the state of the union and unveiled his second-term agenda, he fell short of adequately explaining how he intends to set America back on the course of fiscal responsibility and secure the fiscal health of the nation"

Ron Kind, Politician

"We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is developing at a tremendous rate, and this decision means that we can now prepare to welcome the world's best athletes to a fascinating place"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"As federal lawmakers, we have a responsibility to set a precedent for energy efficient practices"

Greg Walden, Politician

"Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings"

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Writer

"To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man"

Alan Paton, Novelist

"We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful"

Anne Sullivan, Educator

"I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act"

Yitzhak Rabin, Statesman

"I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do"

Oliver North, Soldier

"I do not mean that you could continue to do this with propriety or even with safety; I merely assert that the power is, in point of fact, in your hands. And for such a power, what a responsibility to God and man!"

Jay Alan Sekulow, Lawyer

"I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders"

Tracey Gold, Actress

"My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility"

Holly Near, Musician

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