Responsibility Quotes

Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - - This is of the essence of leadership.

Theodore Harold White

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

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Joseph Batten

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.

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

A man who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A man who merely likes exercising authority usually loses it.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Sir Winston Churchill

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Ronald Reagan

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.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this Deny your responsibility.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951

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

With great power comes great responsibility.

Stan Lee, Spider - Man comic

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

G. M. Trevelyan

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

George Orwell

I believe that all of us have the capacity for one adventure inside us, but great adventure is facing responsibility day after day.

William Gordon

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

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

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

The most dangerous aspect of present - Day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.

Eugenio Montale

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

John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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

The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.

John Lennon

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Louis

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

Elizabeth Adamson

Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.

Author Unknown

Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - - This is of the essence of leadership.

Theodore H. White, The Making of the President, 1960

Our first responsibility is not to build the Church or even to get souls saved - - It is to represent Christ and to bring His message to the world. As God beholds us in Christ, so the world must behold Christ in us. As Christ represents us before the Father, so we must represent Christ before the world.

Cornelius Stam

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

Oscar Arias Sanchez

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

Max De Pree