Responsibility Quotes
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
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.Marie Curie
In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.James Agee
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.Bob Dylan
Baby: an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.Elizabeth Adamson
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.G. M. Trevelyan
There is one and only one social responsibility of business - To use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.Milton Friedman
The price of greatness is responsibility.Sir Winston Churchill
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.George Bernard Shaw
In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less.John Christian Bovee
Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!Edwin Louis Cole
You can delegate authority, but not responsibility.Stephen W. Comiskey
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.Max De Pree
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.Louis
Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fibre.Frank H. Crane
A man who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A man who merely likes exercising authority usually loses it.Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
The most dangerous aspect of present - Day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.Eugenio Montale
Our first responsibility is not to build the Church or even to get souls saved - - It is to represent Christ and to bring His message to the world. As God beholds us in Christ, so the world must behold Christ in us. As Christ represents us before the Father, so we must represent Christ before the world.Cornelius Stam
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - - This is of the essence of leadership.Theodore H. White, The Making of the President, 1960
Uncle Ben With great power, comes great responsibility.Spider - Man
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.Booker T. Washington
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.Author Unknown
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.Abbie M. Dale
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.George Orwell
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.Richard Feynman
No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.Gerald W. Johnson
To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.Arbie M. Dale
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
What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.Gloria Anzaldua
Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong.Tyron Edwards
Man has responsibility, not power.Tuscarora prove
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.Roosevelt, Eleano
To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.Fritz Perls
The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility.Giosu, Borsi
The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.John Lennon
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.Abraham Lincoln
