Responsibility Quotes

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

G. M. Trevelyan

You can delegate authority, but not responsibility.

Stephen W. Comiskey

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

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 Harold White

With great power comes great responsibility.

Stan Lee, Spider - Man comic

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

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

Man has responsibility, not power.

Tuscarora prove

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

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 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

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

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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.

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less.

John Christian Bovee

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

Joseph Batten

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

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

Oscar Arias Sanchez

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

Uncle Ben With great power, comes great responsibility.

Spider - Man

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

Bob Dylan