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
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
There are always those who think they know what is your responsibility better than you do.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.G. M. Trevelyan
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.Abbie M. Dale
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.George Orwell
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
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
It is the responsibility of the sender to make sure the receiver understands the message.Joseph Batten
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.Kahlil Gibran
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
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
In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less.John Christian Bovee
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
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
Baby: an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.Elizabeth Adamson
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
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951
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
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
We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - - what I am is beyond my control - - For the philosophy of responsibility.Barbara Charline Jordan
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.Bob Dylan
Forming characters Whose Our own or others Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.Elihu Burritt
A man who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A man who merely likes exercising authority usually loses it.Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
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
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.Louis
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.
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
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
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
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.George Bernard Shaw
The price of greatness is responsibility.Sir Winston Churchill
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
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
