Quotes about responsibility
responsibility individual individual-responsibility
The thoughts I express, whether clearly or ambiguously, are my own and they are my individual responsibility. Rudy Giuliani
responsibility men vices
Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable. Samuel Johnson
responsibility people track
I've borrowed tons of jewelry. Most people [in Hollywood] do. But it's your responsibility to keep track of it. Rumer Willis
responsibility perfection decision
As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection. Roy Barnes
responsibility governing ifs
If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capcity to govern someone else. Ronald Reagan
responsibility gun common-sense
With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases.
responsibility men dust
Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust. Robert Jordan
responsibility caring people
Social solidarity must rest (instead) on the sole secure basis it can have: direct responsibility of people for one another. Such responsibility can be realized through the principle that every able-bodied adult holds a position within a caring economy - the part of the economy in which people care for one another - as well as within the production system Roberto Unger
responsibility choices way
Sometimes the choices you make are good and other times it goes the other way. I take full responsibility as coach. Roberto Mancini
responsibility house awful
[A]nd soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and the awful responsibility of Time. Robert Penn Warren
responsibility ducks world
Today, we are shapers of the world of tomorrow. That is plain truth. There is no way we can duck the responsibility, and there is no reason why we should. Walt Disney
responsibility government people
One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster. Vito Fossella
responsibility government safety
We know that the most fundamental responsibility of our Federal Government is to ensure the safety of its people and to protect and ensure our National security. And clearly port security has been left in limbo.
responsibility taking-responsibility passengers
The passengers were on my aircraft, and I have to take responsibility for that. Tony Fernandes
responsibility trying telling-the-truth
My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth. Toni Cade Bambara
responsibility compassion people
It needed to be in the public record that no matter the size of the disaster, no matter the level of our compassion, that we have a responsibility to get emergency help to people the right way, but we also have a responsibility to be prudent in our planning. Steve King
responsibility grandmother maturity
Just from being with my grandmother, my maturity escalated. And now I'm in tune to the needs of people. It was a large responsibility, taking care of a human being. Steve Garvey
responsibility men gold
I'm here to tell you, though, ladies that the term "gold digger" is one of the traps we men set to keep you off our money trail; we created that term for you so that we can have all our money and still get everything we want from you without you asking for or expecting this very basic, instincual responsibility that men all over the world are obligated to assume and embrace. ... KNOW THIS: It is your right to expect that a man will pay for your dinner, your movie ticket, your club entry fee, or whatever else he has to pay for in exhange for your time. Steve Harvey
responsibility reality views
The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view. Stephen Covey
responsibility feelings our-actions
If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.
responsibility people choices
Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.
responsibility liberty west-coast
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. Viktor E. Frankl
responsibility men unfinished-work
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how."
responsibility men law
The responsibility for the creation of new scientific knowledge - and for most of its application - rests on that small body of men and women who understand the fundamental laws of nature and are skilled in the techniques of scientific research. We shall have rapid or slow advance on any scientific frontier depending on the number of highly qualified and trained scientists exploring it. Vannevar Bush
responsibility rivers taking-responsibility
By perceiving ourselves as part of the river, we take responsibility for the river as a whole. Vaclav Havel
responsibility important climate
Technological measures are important, but equally important is... a consciousness of the commonality of all living beings and an emphasis on shared responsibility.
responsibility careers patriotism
You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.
responsibility order civilization
A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an amalgam of the accouterments trappings of mass civilization, and who has no roots in the order of being, no sense of responsibility for anything higher than his own personal survival, is a demoralized person. The system depends on this demoralization, deepens it, is in fact a projection of it into society.
responsibility guilt done
Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong Tryon Edwards
responsibility people political
Panem et Circenses" translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power. Suzanne Collins
responsibility needs limits
You cannot limit the debate to being solely in favour or against. It should be more complex. When you condemn, you need to understand what led to it. In general, if it is our responsibility to condemn terrorist actions after they had happened, we have an even greater responsibility beforehand to make sure they won't happen. Tariq Ramadan
responsibility political intellectual
Tunisia's responsibility, and especially that of its political and intellectual elites, is enormous. All the protagonists of the nation's social, cultural, economic and political life must work to overcome useless and counterproductive polarisation, and to find solutions to domestic, regional and international problems.
responsibility writing acting
Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it, and in so doing, took responsibility for my own life. Stephen Lang