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Inspirational Responsibility Quotes

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

George Bernard Shaw

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Winston Churchill

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

George Bernard Shaw

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten".

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Daniel Webster

Responsibility at Work

At that time, about July 5, we had no Iraqi corrections officers working for us. It was a responsibility of the CPA, with contractors, to set up a training program.

Janis Karpinski

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

Georg Baselitz

Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.

Lech Walesa

There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.

James D'arcy

Working together, they will dig out the truth and nothing but the truth about what happened in '99, to assign responsibility, and to look at the institutional failings.

Jose Ramos Horta

In fact, since no one's been interested in my work, I took the responsibility recently to invest in my own work, so I'm producing a concert that was done at the Vision Festival in May.

Joseph Jarman

Responsibility & Leadership Quotes

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

Peter Drucker

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

John Charles Polanyi

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

J. G. Holland

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

Tom Stoppard

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

Vaclav Havel

The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.

Katherine Dunn

The goal of this Nation, I so strongly believe, is to be a preeminent world power. We have to understand what comes with that: The responsibility to be strong.

Jeff Sessions

I do not mean that you could continue to do this with propriety or even with safety; I merely assert that the power is, in point of fact, in your hands. And for such a power, what a responsibility to God and man!

Jay Alan Sekulow

More Responsibility Quotes

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Henry Ward Beecher

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

John F. Kennedy

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.

Barbara Mikulski

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.

Amy Tan

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

William J. Clinton

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

You have to act like a responsible professional in the industry regardless of your age.

Josh Schwartz

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Theodore Roosevelt

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

Jean-Paul Sartre

It was not the president's responsibility to run a law enforcement operation. It was ours.

Janet Reno

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.

William Howard Taft

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

Anne Sullivan Macy

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

Publilius Syrus

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Les Brown

Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.

Carl Levin

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

Barbara Jordan

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

John D. Rockefeller

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

Theodore Roosevelt

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.

Alexis Carrel

You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.

Edwin Louis Cole

For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.

Jacques Delors

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.

Leon Kass

I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.

Dmitri Mendeleev

I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.

Harold Pinter

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

Dag Hammarskjold

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Joan Didion

As federal lawmakers, we have a responsibility to set a precedent for energy efficient practices.

Greg Walden

I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.

Kate Millett

You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But I can't take responsibility for criminal conduct of somebody inside the company.

Kenneth Lay

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Leo Buscaglia

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Thomas Jefferson

This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.

Jacques Delors

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