Top 100 Quotes About Responsibility
#1. We are greatly conscious of the fact that among the Lamanites - as well as among all peoples of other countries - we have a responsibility to see that the gospel touches their hearts and minds and that they understand it.
Spencer W. Kimball
#2. 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 our responsibility.
Arnold J. Toynbee
#3. Worry is accepting responsibility God never intended you to have.
Alice Hocker
#4. As people alive today, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is therefore part of our responsibility toward others to ensure that the world we pass on is as healthy, if not healthier, than we found it.
Dalai Lama
#5. With love comes responsibility and possibility, fear and hope, quests and suffering
Carrie Jones
#6. Nobody in rich countries wants to face responsibility for the lives of people in poor countries. They just want cheap groceries.
Greg Baxter
#7. Happiness is a function of accepting what is. Love is a function of communication. Health is a function of participation. Self expression is a function of responsibility.
Werner Erhard
#8. When there is no Personal Responsibility in any society, there cannot be a responsible government. Responsible government is an off shoot of a culture of Personal Responsibility.
Sunday Adelaja
#9. Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.
Charles W. Pickering
#10. The best way to develop responsibility in people is to give them responsibility.
Ken Blanchard
#11. FDI is a responsibility for Indians & an opportunity for the World. My definition of FDI for the people of India is 'First Develop India'.
Narendra Modi
#12. You can borrow my Blackbird, if you like,' said Ben. This was his new fountain pen, which troubled him. It was guaranteed not to leak but writers and schoolchildren knew better. Ben wished to be relieved of the responsibility of the Blackbird, without losing his own dignity.
Penelope Fitzgerald
#13. Robb Stark was a young man not expecting anything, thinking his life is going to be on one path, and then he's pushed. More weight and responsibility get put onto him; more demands are made of him. For me, as an actor, there are parallels to that.
Richard Madden
#14. 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
#15. Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility.
Nicole Ari Parker
#16. When a leader takes responsibility for his own actions and mistakes, he not only sets a good example, he shows a healthy respect for people on his team
Mike Krzyzewski
#17. I support safeguarding users' personally identifiable information and sensitive data like health or financial records. I also believe the government has a responsibility to punish deceptive and unfair practices that defy reasonable expectations about consumers' privacy.
Marsha Blackburn
#18. We say yes to the society of solidarity and democracy where free people together, in mutual respect and under mutual responsibility, shape a life where everyone has equal opportunities and equal value.
Olof Palme
#19. And then when they picked me as premiere, I don't think I feel, you know, different. For me, the position mean responsibility, but that's all.
Nguyen Cao Ky
#20. Personal responsibility for everything is the hallmark of an enlightened being. If you blame others, bad luck or the Universe/God for your difficulties, you clearly do not understand the Principle of Oneness. You are in charge and responsible for everything. Embrace your power and make no excuses.
Russell Anthony Gibbs
#21. I have a deep sense of responsibility to my country and Greek people.
George Papandreou
#22. Have you realized that today is the tomorrow you talked about yesterday? It is your responsibility to change your life for the better.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#23. The attempt to interpret human behavior in terms of models derived from the natural sciences eventually destroys personal responsibility.
Lesslie Newbigin
#24. Contemporary culture is not very good on responsibility.
Simon Blackburn
#25. The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and responsibility of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what he may attempt as an executant - no limit to his possible experiments, efforts, discoveries, successes.
Henry James
#26. There will always be dissident voices heard in the land, expressing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side and seeking influence without responsibility.
John F. Kennedy
#27. Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.
Taraji P. Henson
#28. Being constantly in the public eye gives me a special responsibility, particularly that of using the impact of photographs to transmit a message, to sensitize the word to an important cause, to defend certain values.
Princess Diana
#29. Primary responsibility for Brexit lies with British conservatives, who took an entire continent hostage.
Martin Schulz
#30. Music bears a great responsibility because it is so influential. Everybody listens to music. It is a very influential tool. To me, it is very important to the world ... music is ... to being ... to life.
Stephen Marley
#31. You are the only person in existence who can use your potential. It is an awesome responsibility.
Zig Ziglar
#32. I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.
Dalai Lama
#33. We act, though, not under a utopian illusion that you or I or anyone or everyone together can rid this world of pain and suffering. That responsibility belongs to the resurrected Christ, and he will do it when he returns. But until that day, we do with an undivided heart whatever God calls us to do.
David Platt
#34. The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of religion, of special revelation from God; but it is also a book which teaches man his own individual responsibility, his own dignity, and his equality with his fellow - man.
Daniel Webster
#35. Men and women who live in America ... have a responsibility greater than that yet borne by any other people. Theirs the duty, the obligation to preserve not only the Constitution of the land but the Christian principles from which sprang that immortal document.
David O. McKay
#36. When it comes to my vocabulary, I felt a responsibility when I was teaching to raise the bar of conversation in my classroom. And with my own students, I refused to let them use the phrase "I like" or "I don't like" when we were engaged in a critique.
Tim Gunn
#37. I would never abdicate, nor would I expect any other governor to abdicate, the responsibility to protect the people of my state.
Joe Manchin
#38. It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.
Tig Notaro
#39. Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
Jack Kornfield
#40. True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
#41. If you have to hold an employee accountable, replace that employee with a better one who takes responsibility so you don't have to.
Bob Lewis
#42. As parents, we have the responsibility and the power to create a foundational love for nutritious foods that will influence our children's choices for decades to come, setting the stage for our children, grandchildren, and future generations to flourish in wellness and health.
Leah Borski
#43. We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.
Bob Ehrlich
#44. My only responsibility as a playwright and a storyteller is to give you the time of your life in the theatre. I just happen to think that with Hamilton's story, sticking close to the facts helps me. All the most interesting things in the show happened.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#45. The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#46. When you're in the public eye - whether it be entertainment, sports, medicine, politics, whatever way - you have an opportunity, and I think also an obligation and a responsibility, to disseminate good information.
Ed Begley Jr.
#47. You have a whole life in the outdoors, you realize you have a sense of responsibility to protect these wild places.
Yvon Chouinard
#48. Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely permitted to play and be passive.
John Taylor Gatto
#49. Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children.
John Doolittle
#50. Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
William Blake
#51. Are Iraqis ready to carry the responsibility for their country? Is Iraq ready to be its own master? We want to be the masters of ourselves and to carry our responsibilities in this region.
Ahmed Chalabi
#52. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed.
Maya Angelou
#53. But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.
Christopher Nolan
#54. For me there is a reluctance to be in front of cameras. I love making music but with that comes a lot of responsibility and you have to put yourself out there more.
Daniel Powter
#55. The word "sin" is just a way for a person not to take responsibility for their "bad" actions; actions that might not necessarily be evil- because evil is subjective- but are deemed evil by society.
Menna Anwar
#56. Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.
Milton H. Erickson
#58. If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.
Christiane Amanpour
#59. 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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#60. When the government intervenes to help, whether in the European welfare state or in America's more diluted version, it not only diminishes our responsibility for the desired outcome, it enfeebles the institutions through which people live satisfying lives.
Charles Murray
#61. I feel like it's my responsibility to honestly cover a lot of subjects in part because I have two little girls and I really want them when they grow up to have a voice.
Carre Otis
#62. He had been younger and easier then, unfettered by anything like responsibility or wisdom.
Maggie Stiefvater
#63. We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is developing at a tremendous rate, and this decision means that we can now prepare to welcome the world's best athletes to a fascinating place.
Otto Schily
#64. Your success is your responsibility. Take the initiative, do the work, and persist to the end.
Lorii Myers
#65. I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#66. It's almost a responsibility for all the people of the United Kingdom, regardless of race, color or creed, and an understanding that you have an individual connection with each and every one.
Prince Andrew
#67. Responsibility is the thing people dread the most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.
Frank Crane
#68. All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I am not alone.
Alberto Manguel
#69. By including women in decision-making, city governments will be in a better position to fulfill their responsibility to ensure the safety of their residents, especially women and girls.
Michelle Bachelet
#70. We're all in this together. I learned that lesson growing up in West Philly. When I shoveled the sidewalk my parents didn't let me stop with our house. They told me to keep shoveling all the way to the corner. I had a responsibility to my community.
Michael Nutter
#71. It is India's responsibility to display its strength to the World through knowledge and innovations.
Narendra Modi
#72. As travelers, it is our responsibility to adapt, otherwise we miss the whole point: the opportunity to gain a new perspective.
Josh Gates
#73. By staying, by shirking the responsibility and effort of leaving, by continuing to occupy this lovely man while giving him neither children nor a public companion nor a welcoming home-do I do wrong?
Anna Lyndsey
#74. Jesus has chosen to entrust us with the responsibility of reflecting His light to mankind.
Todd Coburn
#75. For me, there's always a huge attraction in playing real people. But with it comes an incredible sense of responsibility because you're playing a real person in a real event.
Naoko Mori
#76. Business has a responsibility to give back to the community.
Ben Cohen
#77. When a smoker says he wants to quit but can't, what he's really saying is, "I want to quit but I want even more not to suffer the agony of withdrawal." To argue otherwise is to jettison any lingering notion of personal responsibility.
Jonathan Franzen
#78. The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Denis Waitley
#79. Girls have a tendency to take responsibility for romantic misinterpretations, when often it's men whose perfectly honed emotional inscrutability makes life more complicated than it should be.
Mariella Frostrup
#80. I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.
Jesse Ventura
#81. The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Oscar Arias
#82. If a player won't shoulder responsibility, he won't work on his weaknesses, which means he won't improve. He'll be constantly on the prowl for a fall guy or a scapegoat, and his teammates becomes epidemic.
Bill Parcels
#83. It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility.
Colin Greenwood
#84. I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.
Brandon Sanderson
#85. To escape responsibility for violence we imagine it is enough to pledge never to be the first to do violence. But no one ever sees himself as casting the first stone. Even the most violent persons believe that they are always reacting to a violence committed in the first instance by someone else.
Rene Girard
#86. Even though we may want something so badly, most times when it arrives we cannot see the thing for what it is. Opportunity knocks all the time, Molly, but it is your responsibility to open the door.
Kent Allan Rees
#87. I understand why you do your job," my mother said to me. "There's a sense of accomplishment when you take down someone bad. It's like being a police officer or being in the Army or being a mother. You have a responsibility to protect and keep order, and you do whatever it takes to get that done.
Janet Evanovich
#88. I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.
Henry Miller
#89. People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like disease or genetics.
James Frey
#90. With full responsibility for my words as a professional biologist, I do not hesitate to say that all existing and genuine knowledge about the way in which the physical characteristics of human communities are related to their cultural capabilities can be written on the back of a postage stamp.
Lancelot Hogben
#91. If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Abigail Van Buren
#92. Never duck responsibility, its like running from the rain only to fall into the river.
Farrah Gray
#93. The despairing are always being urged to abstain from selfishness, to think of others first. This seems unfair. Why load them with responsibility for the welfare of others, when their own already weighs them down?
Julian Barnes
#94. Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#95. In speaking the truth of your experience to another, it will serve you well to realize that how they choose to respond is not your responsibility.
Iyanla Vanzant
#96. The neurotic assumes too much responsibility; the person with a character disorder not enough.
M. Scott Peck
#97. When you realize it's your responsibility to be a leader and create the world that you want to see, you have to do it.
Janelle Monae
#98. Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself.
Deepak Chopra
#99. The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.
Ted Cruz
#100. I got the wake-up call that no one is policing our oceans. I wondered, how can I do anything? What really can I do to make things better? There are some perks to being a celebrity. My job is to be funny once in a while, but it's my responsibility to make good use of it.
Angela Kinsey
