Responsibility Quotes - page 2

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. (Stanley Milgram)
Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching? View quote
Harriet Martineau
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. View quote
Joan Didion
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. View quote
Tom Stoppard
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. View quote
Booker T. Washington
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. View quote
Anthony Robbins
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. View quote
Henry Adams
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? View quote
Dan Quayle
A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. View quote
Ronald Knox
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. (Marie Curie)
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. View quote
Peter Drucker
It is time to return to those core values, time to get back to basics: to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family, and not shuffling it off on other people and the state. View quote
John Major
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. View quote
John F. Kennedy
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. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement. View quote
Fredrik Bajer
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. View quote
Les Brown
An award means a lot to me. It brings happiness along with a kind of fear. It brings fear because the award is the responsibility which audiences have put on us. So a singer winning an award should always try to give best of him to the audiences. View quote
Shreya Ghoshal
Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all. View quote
Bill Clinton
For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility. (Jacques Delors)
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. View quote
Viktor Frankl
Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of his acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does. View quote
Carlos Castaneda
The separation of families to me is very close to my heart because we lived that as immigrants. I strongly feel that we are all connected, and having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life, makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another. I am privileged to help in some way and I will always take that opportunity. View quote
Gloria Estefan