Responsibility Quotes
Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.
Garet Garrett
The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?
Dan Quayle
Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.
Delphine de Girardin
Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace.
Frank B. Kellogg
One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.
William Petersen
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
Thomas Merton
We've been helping you out in Alaska in considerable ways, and you're walking away from the responsibility, and we're not going to allow that.
Lisa Murkowski
During the next 90 days, people are going to be more open to the Gospel than in years. It is God's responsibility to make people receptive; it is our responsibility to sow the seed.
Rick Warren
As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection.
Roy Barnes
Now is the time to show maximum responsibility. It is not the time to pay off old scores nor for sterile partisan recriminations. It is time to re-establish a climate of calmness and mutual respect.
Giorgio Napolitano
The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.
Garrett Hardin
We have to remind the people: Congress has the constitutional obligation and public responsibility to oversee these issues and the Department of Justice's operations.
Sibel Edmonds
Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
William J. Clinton
The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.
Harvey Cushing
The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment.
Jill Robinson
We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.
Aleksander Kwasniewski
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
John D. Rockefeller
No one has the responsibility to be out to anyone but himself or herself. I made my choice a million years ago.
Lea DeLaria
I tried to be as thorough as I can, but there is a responsibility that we all have, especially with something like AA which is dependant on anonymity. Once you start banging on about it the whole time, you are potentially damaging the whole concept of it.
Jack Dee
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
Les Brown
I don't think I'm egotistical as much as I'm taking responsibility for what I'm putting out there.
Jon Favreau
This year has been full of lessons learned and soul searching and realizing I'm an adult. It's time to take responsibility and not take the easy way out.
Nicole Richie
I remind everyone: Whether you school them at home or send them to school, you as a parent have the responsibility to make sure they learn and behave. Teachers and principals may help, but parents are the ones who must accept responsibility.
Ernest Istook
Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors.
Blanche Lincoln
You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.
Denis Waitley
Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources.
Lillian Russell