Responsibility Quotes
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
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.Richard Feynman
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
A man who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A man who merely likes exercising authority usually loses it.Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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.
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
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.Michael Korda
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!Edwin Louis Cole
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
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
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
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951
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
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far - Reaching consequence of submission to authority.Stanley Milgram
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.Abraham Lincoln
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
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.George Bernard Shaw
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty.John D. Rockefeller Jr.
I believe that every right implies a responsibility every opportunity an obligation every possession a duty.John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.George Orwell
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
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
There is one and only one social responsibility of business - To use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.Milton Friedman
We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - - what I am is beyond my control - - For the philosophy of responsibility.Barbara Charline Jordan
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 price of greatness is responsibility.Sir Winston Churchill
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
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.Abbie M. Dale
No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.Gerald W. Johnson
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
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.Elihu Burritt
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.Louis
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
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
