Quotes about responsibility
responsibility thinking years
I think just in general there's a bunch of films that mattered to me that didn't reach their potential, and on some level you have to assume responsibility for that. And I think over the years that gets difficult. Kiefer Sutherland
responsibility exercise animal
It is man's intrinsic and irreducible self-responsibility to humanize himself, to exercise his entire range of rational and moral resources to raise his mode of being and seeing and acting above not just that of animals, but also above that of the majority of subhuman (never to be self-realized) humans who will never draw themselves into a self-punishing position of focal self-diagnosis and self-accountability. Kenny Smith
responsibility ideas justice
The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy. Ken MacLeod
responsibility technology thinking
I think America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership in technology and its moral leadership in the world, to explore, to seek knowledge. Gene Cernan
responsibility individual sense-of-responsibility
Only individuals have a sense of responsibility. Friedrich Nietzsche
responsibility privilege underestimate
Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases. Friedrich Nietzsche
responsibility moments draws
Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment. Friedrich Nietzsche
responsibility doe holiness
...God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we now can resist sin. But the responsibility for resisting is ours. God does not do that for us. To confuse the potential for resisting (which God provided) with the responsibility for resisting (which is ours) is to court disaster in our pursuit of holiness. Jerry Bridges
responsibility giving holiness
God makes provision for our holiness, but He gives us the responsibility of using those provisions. Jerry Bridges
responsibility practice community
Practice of true community involves responsibilities and actions that do not come naturally to us. Jerry Bridges
responsibility doe praying
God's sovereignty does not negate our responsibility to pray, but rather makes it possible for us to pray with confidence. Jerry Bridges
responsibility
Power-over is amoral. Power-to is responsibility. Gloria Feldt
responsibility hands people
Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another. Gloria Estefan
responsibility today return
A great nation cannot abandon its responsibilities. Responsibilities abandoned today return as more acute crises tomorrow. Gerald R. Ford
responsibility land long
The earth will continue to regenerate its life sources only as long as we and all the peoples of the world do our part to conserve its natural resources. It is a responsibility which every human being shares. Through voluntary action, each of us can join in building a productive land in harmony with nature. Gerald R. Ford
responsibility men long
We have too long treated the natural world as an adversary rather than as a life-sustaining gift from the Almighty. If man has the genius to build, which he has, he must also have the ability and the responsibility to preserve. Gerald R. Ford
responsibility thinking feelings
I think one has to understand, not as a theory, not as a speculative, entertaining concept, but rather as an actual fact - that we are the world and the world is us. The world is each one of us; to feel that, to be really committed to it and to nothing else, brings about a feeling of great responsibility and an action that must not be fragmentary, but whole. Jiddu Krishnamurti
responsibility doe mankind
Does a human being know the responsibility he has to himself and to all of mankind Jiddu Krishnamurti
responsibility important world
To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves; and what is important in beginning with ourselves is the intention. The intention must be to understand ourselves and not to leave it to others to transform themselves or to bring about a modified change through revolution, either of the left or of the right. It is important to understand that this is our responsibility, yours and mine... Jiddu Krishnamurti
responsibility want emotion
The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility. Jessamyn West
responsibility superhero hopeful
We've always known we'd eventually be called upon to open our shirts and save the day, and the superhero was a crude, hopeful attempt to talk about how we all might feel on that day of great power, and great responsibility. Grant Morrison
responsibility simple rights
America comes with both rights and responsibilities. You have, for example, the right to free speech, but you have the responsibility to not yell 'fire' in a crowded theater. If you don't live up to that responsibility, you face certain consequences. It's a simple but effective formula. Unfortunately, tenured professors are completely insulated from it. They can scream fire in their classrooms all they want - and then hide behind their tenure if anyone questions them on it. Glenn Beck
responsibility roots modern
Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities. Gilbert K. Chesterton
responsibility army people
Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility. Frank Herbert
responsibility choices made
The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer. Larry Wall
responsibility tired acting
When I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director I then look for an acting gig. Lake Bell
responsibility ethics duty
Duty is what one expects from others. Oscar Wilde
responsibility destiny people
One is that we are all responsible for our actions, our behavior, and our words, and we must take responsibility for everything we say and do. I am the architect of my destiny. You can`t blame other people for things that happened to you. Madonna Ciccone
responsibility writing self
China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it. Ma Jian
responsibility equality men
It is my mission to help in the breaking down of classes, and to make all men feel as if they were brethren of the same family, sharing the same rights, the same capabilities, and the same responsibilities. While my hand can hold a pen, I will use it to this end; and while my brain can earn a dollar, I will devote it to this end. Lydia M. Child
responsibility ability
Responsibility is the ability to respond. Lucille Ball
responsibility giving people
You've got to take responsibility for the hell that you've been giving to our people not only in America, but in Haiti and the Caribbean, and now in Africa. [Hillary] Clinton, your hand is bloody Louis Farrakhan
responsibility people waiting
I don't live a very posh life. There are no drivers waiting or people doing everything for me. I pretty much live like a normal person. . . . It's not good to have a life without responsibilities, you know ?. Liv Tyler