Quotes about responsibility
responsibility self worry
The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down. William James
responsibility men stronger
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
responsibility men tree
He was doing missionary work. But from the outset he had little success in convincing his charges of their responsibility for a sin committed at the beginning of creation, one which, as they understood it, they were ready and capable (indeed, they carried charms to assure it) of duplicating themselves. He did no better convincing them that a man had died on a tree to save them all: an act which one old Indian, if Gwyon had translated correctly, regarded as "rank presumption". William Gaddis
responsibility way addresses
I do feel a responsibility to address things that are problematic, but I don't have to go out of my way to do that. Wesley Morris
responsibility community towns
I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities. Sarah Palin
responsibility wealth virtue
Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor. Sappho
responsibility men agents
Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers. Samuel Smiles
responsibility giving justice
Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness, is the highest faculty given us by God, the whole foundation of our responsibility, and our sole capacity for religion. ...God, in giving us conscience, has implanted a principle within us which forbids us to prostrate ourselves before mere power, or to offer praise where we do not discover worth. William Ellery Channing
responsibility gentleman bears
A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences. William Faulkner
responsibility followers would-be
If I had to reduce the responsibilities of a good follower to a single rule, it would be to speak truth to power. Warren G. Bennis
responsibility men missing
When we suggest that men are at the top because men discriminate, we miss the point. Men are at the top of the work hierarchy because work has been primarily men's responsibility. Warren Farrell
responsibility men rights
A shared choice movement sees the fetus as the genes of a woman and the genes of a man; the flesh of the woman, the flesh of the man; the bone of a woman, the bone of a man; the responsibility of a woman, the responsibility of a man; the rights of a woman, the rights of a man. It desires a transition to equality.
responsibility thinking america
I don't think any of us should forget that the security of America is our highest responsibility. Ronald Reagan
responsibility people leaving
Wouldn't it be better for the human spirit and for the soul of this nation to encourage people to accept more responsibility to care for each other rather than leaving those tasks to paid bureaucrats.
responsibility politics individual
With freedom comes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual.
responsibility brotherly-love accepting
We can have peace and brotherly love by accepting our responsibility to preserve freedom.
responsibility order political
Put no faith in salvation through the political order. Saint Augustine
responsibility looks generations
If we look to our responsibility to the generations yet unborn who will come after us, how can we fail to recognize that peace and freedom are inextricably bound up one with another and that the threat to one is a threat to both Winston Churchill
responsibility our-society too-much-power
Wealth is a form of power in our society. With great power comes great responsibility. If you have too much wealth, ipso facto, you have too much power - therefore you have too much responsibility - and you're a kind of dictator. Will Self
responsibility thinking ideas
I began at some point to understand the whole idea of accountability and responsibility and leadership, and I think that was something that really birthed something in me, where I knew I wanted to be part of a larger equation in our society. Wes Moore
responsibility liberty firsts
Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility. W. E. B. Du Bois
responsibility people want
I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people. Zoe Wanamaker
responsibility men omnipotence
It seems to me to be true that heavens are placed in the sky because it is the unreachable. The unreachable and therefore the unknowable always seems divine--hence, religion. People need religion because the great masses fear life and its consequences. Its responsibilities weigh heavy. Feeling a weakness in the face of great forces, men seek an alliance with omnipotence to bolster up their feeling of weakness, even though the omnipotence they rely upon is a creature of their own minds. It gives them a feeling of security. Zora Neale Hurston
responsibility culture opinion
It didn't really change my opinion about [Edward] Snowden all that much, but I definitely feel like as a culture, it gave us information that generated a responsibility to protect ourselves as much as we can and also a responsibility to hold our government accountable to honoring our constitutional rights. Zachary Quinto
responsibility government waiting
...it's always been difficult for us to lead an examined life as a corporation. I've always felt like a company has the responsibility to not wait for the government to tell it what to do, or to wait for the consumer to tell it what to do, but as soon as it finds out it's doing something wrong, stop doing it. Yvon Chouinard
responsibility wild-places realizing
You have a whole life in the outdoors, you realize you have a sense of responsibility to protect these wild places.
responsibility want way
Designers have a responsibility to show the future as they want it to be - or at least as it can be, not just the way an industry wants it to be. Yves Behar
responsibility use existence
You are the only person in existence who can use your potential. It is an awesome responsibility. Zig Ziglar
responsibility language looking-good
It is not the responsibility of the language to force good looking code, but the language should make good looking code possible. Yukihiro Matsumoto
responsibility government together-again
We are going to have to gather up the fragments of knowledge and responsibilities that have been turned over to governments, corporations, and specialists, and put those fragments back together again in our own minds and in our families and household and neighborhoods. Wendell Berry
responsibility needs welfare
If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
responsibility answers doe
My answer to your question'Does the writer have a social responsibility?' is NO.You owe me ten cents, sir. Vladimir Nabokov
responsibility people likes
The Establishment likes people who take no responsibility and cannot respect themselves. Yoko Ono