Responsibility Quotes

Responsibility is the price of greatness. (Winston Churchill)
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. View quote
Sigmund Freud
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom. View quote
Bob Dylan
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
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. View quote
Václav Havel
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
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. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity. View quote
George Soros
You have a responsibility for the way you make the audience feel, and I want them to feel uncomfortable. View quote
David Fincher
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. (George Bernard Shaw)
In dreams begins responsibility. View quote
William Butler Yeats
The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace. View quote
Michael Jordan
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity. View quote
Nadine Gordimer
One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'. View quote
Dan Quayle
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior. View quote
M. Scott Peck
Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity. View quote
M. Scott Peck
Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility. View quote
Alan Rickman
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility. View quote
John Lennon
Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pelé. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man. (Pelé)
The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision. View quote
George Eliot
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. View quote
W. H. Auden
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. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee