Responsibility Quotes
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty.John D. Rockefeller Jr.
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 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
I believe that all of us have the capacity for one adventure inside us, but great adventure is facing responsibility day after day.William Gordon
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
Baby: an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.Elizabeth Adamson
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
In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less.John Christian Bovee
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
Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe.Christine Lane
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.Elizabeth Cady Stanton
You have given me a great responsibility to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.Bob Dylan
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far - Reaching consequence of submission to authority.Stanley Milgram
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
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
I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.Oliver L. North
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.Elihu Burritt
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
I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind.His Holiness the Dalai Lama, speech? in 1994
Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society.Janet Jackson
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
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.G. M. Trevelyan
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
Man has responsibility, not power.Tuscarora prove
There is nothing like a coup de foudre and absorption in family responsibility for maturing the male and pulling his scattered wits together.Sir V Pritchett
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.Michael Korda
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.Ronald Reagan
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.Oscar Arias Sanchez
We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - - what I am is beyond my control - - For the philosophy of responsibility.Barbara Charline Jordan
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.Abraham Lincoln
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
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.Louis
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 up to us.A. J. Toynbee
Forming characters Whose Our own or others Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.Elihu Burritt
