Responsibility Quotes

What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.

Gloria Anzaldua

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

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

John Haldane

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Sir Winston Churchill

To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.

Arbie M. Dale

I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, speech? in 1994

To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.

Fritz Perls

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

George Bernard Shaw

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.

William John Bennett

You have given me a great responsibility to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.

Oliver L. North

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong.

Tyron Edwards

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Marie Curie

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

G. M. Trevelyan

There will always be dissident voices heard in the land expresing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side, and seeking influence without responsibility.

John F. Kennedy, Speech for the Dallas Trade Mart which was never delivered.

The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility.

Giosu, Borsi

With great power comes great responsibility.

Stan Lee, Spider - Man comic

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Booker T. Washington

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.

James Agee

Uncle Ben With great power, comes great responsibility.

Spider - Man

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Gerald W. Johnson

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty.

John D. Rockefeller Jr.

The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media.

Eduard Sagalaev

You can delegate authority, but not responsibility.

Stephen W. Comiskey

Baby: an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.

Elizabeth Adamson

Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society.

Janet Jackson

There are always those who think they know what is your responsibility better than you do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - - what I am is beyond my control - - For the philosophy of responsibility.

Barbara Charline Jordan

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 up to us.

A. J. Toynbee

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

George Orwell

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.

Kahlil Gibran

Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe.

Christine Lane

It is the responsibility of the sender to make sure the receiver understands the message.

Joseph Batten

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Bob Dylan

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.

Roosevelt, Eleano

There is nothing like a coup de foudre and absorption in family responsibility for maturing the male and pulling his scattered wits together.

Sir V Pritchett