Responsibility Quotes
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
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951
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
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
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.Louis
We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - - what I am is beyond my control - - For the philosophy of responsibility.Barbara Charline Jordan
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
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
Uncle Ben With great power, comes great responsibility.Spider - Man
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
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
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
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
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
With great power comes great responsibility.Stan Lee, Spider - Man comic
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.George Bernard Shaw
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.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.G. M. Trevelyan
Man has responsibility, not power.Tuscarora prove
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.George Orwell
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 more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.Oscar Arias Sanchez
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
Forming characters Whose Our own or others Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.Elihu Burritt
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far - Reaching consequence of submission to authority.Stanley Milgram
Baby: an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.Elizabeth Adamson
Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fibre.Frank H. Crane
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
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.George Bernard Shaw
You can delegate authority, but not responsibility.Stephen W. Comiskey
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 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
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
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
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
I believe that every right implies a responsibility every opportunity an obligation every possession a duty.John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.Bob Dylan
