Quotes About Action Responsibility

#1. Disinformation is a large part of its[CIA] covert action responsibility, and the American people are the primary target of its lies.

Ralph McGehee

#2. The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.

Martin Heidegger

#3. Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#4. Industrialised countries must take the responsibility of helping poorer countries in the climate change action plan.

Angela Merkel

#5. Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.

John Dewey

#6. People want guidance, not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is, and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and authority to act on it.

Howard Schultz

#7. Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.

Stanley Schmidt

#8. Excuses are a time thief. Have a goal, accept responsibility, and take action!

Steve Maraboli

#9. If not now, then when?

John E. Lewis

#10. The realization that just as no action is really indifferent, so no utterance is without its responsibility introduces, it is true, a certain strenuosity into life.

Richard M. Weaver

#11. and then you're (at times, it feels, aggressively) told that you're at fault and should take responsibility and action for This Here Problem? Holy . . . Like, I mean, holy shit, Bast.

Kaija Straumanis

#12. Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.

Nicolas Cage

#13. It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.

Stanley Milgram

#14. If my church attempted to influence me in a way which was improper or which affected adversely my responsibilities as a public servant sworn to uphold the Constitution, then I would reply to them that this was an improper action on their part. It was one to which I could not subscribe.

John F. Kennedy

#15. The State, in organizing security should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility; in establishing a national minimum, it should leave room and encouragement for voluntary action by each individual to provide more than that minimum for himself and his family.

William Beveridge

#16. The size of the tree you cut determines the weight with which you have to throw the axe.

Israelmore Ayivor

#17. Maturity begins on the day we accept responsibility for our own actions.

Richard L. Evans

#18. And I take full responsibility for my actions and whatever consequences my peers see fit.

Kenneth Williams

#19. I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.

Robin Cook

#20. To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

Jacques Derrida

#21. Whatever action we take may influence the course of civilization.

M. Scott Peck

#22. Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#23. Whether I'm directing live action or animation, my responsibility is the same. I have an audience sitting in a theater with their popcorn, and I've got to show them a good time and make them feel something.

Lee Unkrich

#24. The world has crafted a beautiful balance of collective action - common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities.

Narendra Modi

#25. It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action.

Edward Livingston

#26. There is no such thing as institutional conditions without any individual actions and no such thing as individual action without institutional conditions. So there is always personal responsibility.

Cornel West

#27. Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility. Through collective action, they can leverage their dollars to combat the force of those investors who myopically pursue profits at the expense of the rest of society.

Simon Mainwaring

#28. We are personally responsible for our own state of consciousness. As Soul unfolds toward total freedom, It understands total responsibility must be accepted for every thought and action.

Harold Klemp

#29. To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility. - BELL HOOKS1

Brene Brown

#30. An animal takes freely anything that it wishes: it commits no sin and is not held responsible for its action because it knows no better. But as soon as the idea of 'mine' and 'thine' has been imprinted upon our consciousness, then also the responsibility comes.

Max Heindel

#31. My films have always been considered the benchmark in action. I have a big responsibility to shoulder.

Sunny Deol

#32. A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

John Stuart Mill

#33. I was made acutely aware how far superior an education that stresses independent action and personal responsibility is to one that relies on drill, external authority and ambition.

Albert Einstein

#34. If not us, then who?
If not now, then when?

John E. Lewis

#35. Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Charles De Gaulle

#36. When the situation demands action, know the end of the action before you start the action

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#37. It is incumbent upon us to do what we can, even if we cannot do much.

David Smail

#38. There is a severe horse overpopulation crisis caused by overbreeding in the racing industry. It's time for that industry to accept responsibility for its castoffs and take dramatic action to protect a species that has so loyally served humankind.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#39. I'm willing to deal with the consequences and accept responsibility for my actions.

Michael Vick

#40. Democracy transformed from thin paper to thick action is the greatest form of government on earth.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#41. A powerful new idea can kick around unused in a company for years, not because its merits are not recognized, but because nobody has assumed the responsibility for converting it from words into action.

Theodore Levitt

#42. Information sharing produces shared awareness among the participants, and collaborative production relies on shared creation, but collective action creates shared responsibility, by tying the user's identity to the identity of the group.

Clay Shirky

#43. These things were in my mind from the first moment I entered the vocal booth. The gratitude I had for rock and roll as it pulled me through a difficult adolescence. The joy I experienced when I danced. The moral power I gleaned in taking responsibility for one's action.
Patti Smith

Patti Smith

#44. It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice.

Dan Millman

#45. Your responsibility is to not question God's actions or what looks like a lack of action. Your obligation is to count on God's character.

Jim George

#46. Ours is the responsibility to show our gratitude by the actions of our lives.

Thomas S. Monson

#47. As to the meaning of "corporate social responsibility," Friedman and I would agree: If a certain action improves the corporation's bottom line, there's no point in labeling it "socially responsible." It's just good business.

Robert Reich

#48. Autonomy ... is freedom to develop one's self - to increase one's knowledge, improve one's skills, and achieve responsibility for one's conduct. And it is freedom to lead one's own life, to choose among alternative courses of action so long as no injury to others results.

Thomas Szasz

#49. Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

Jackie Chan

#50. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star!

William Shakespeare

#51. Climate change is a very unusual ethical challenge because it's so completely measurable ... one of the reasons people should take action is because they have a responsibility for their emissions ... therefore what somebody else does is really irrelevant

George C. Marshall

#52. Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.

John Henry Newman

#53. To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else.

Bruce Lee

#54. Accepting responsibility for the actions of others contributes to your own greatness.

Edwin Louis Cole

#55. What you fill your days with, fills your days.

Marty Rubin

#56. Personal Responsibility is the individual desire to be in charge or in control of an action or situation.

Sunday Adelaja

#57. The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#58. When you do anything from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, never shrink from being seen to do it, even though the world should misunderstand it; for if you are not acting rightly, shun the action itself; if you are, why fear those who wrongly censure you?

Epictetus

#59. Ask yourself the question: If I don't do it, who will? If you find the answer is no one will do it, then do it yourself.

Omar Saif Ghobash

#60. Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.

John F. Kennedy

#61. I fail to understand why gethes (Humans), talk about individuals versus society. They are the same thing. The action of every individual counts, and those individual acts of personal responsibility accumulate to create society. Snowflakes are equally blind to their role in causing avalanches.

Karen Traviss

#62. The task is not to turn the world upside down but in a given place to do what, from the perspecive of reality, is necessary objectively and to really carry it out.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#63. I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action.

Winston Churchill

#64. The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens.

Sunday Adelaja

#65. Any substantial improvement must come from action on the system, the responsibility of management. Wishing and pleading and begging the workers to do better was totally futile.

W. Edwards Deming

#66. I take full responsibility here and now for everything I experience, for it is my own programming that creates my actions and also influences the reactions of people around me.

Ken Keyes Jr.

#67. When nothing is done, nothing is won!

Israelmore Ayivor

#68. If you aren't where you want to be or you haven't achieved all you hope to achieve, the reason most likely resides not around you but within you. Take responsibility and then take action.

Nick Vujicic

#69. My literal responsibility as director of the CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Congress - not to seek their approval; to inform.

Michael Hayden

#70. Personal Responsibility is an act of being responsible for results and consequences of your decisions, actions and in-actions in a given situation or circumstance.

Sunday Adelaja

#71. It is incredibly daunting to take on a live-action story. I think that it adds a level of complexity to the responsibility that goes beyond what I've experienced on these two films (The Lorax and Horton Hears a Who).

Christopher Meledandri