Quotes with responsibility

  • I'm not sure that it's the responsibility of a writer to give answers, especially to questions that have no answers.
  • To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.
  • One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
  • I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
  • It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.
  • Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.
  • For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.
  • You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility.
  • Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
  • Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
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  • Les Brown If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Henry Winkler A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.
    Henry Winkler
    American actor, comedian and director
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  • Les Brown Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • B. R. Ambedkar 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.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Arnold Toynbee 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 up to us.
    Arnold Toynbee
    British economic historian and social reformer (1852 - 1883)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Carl Levin Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Antony Jay 'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.
    Antony Jay
    English writer, broadcaster, and director (1930 - 2016)
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  • Denis Waitley Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Michael Korda Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the only quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.
    Michael Korda
    American publisher (1933 - )
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  • Peter F. Drucker The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • Ronald Knox A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
    Ronald Knox
    English Catholic priest, theologian and author (1888 - 1957)
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  • Barbara Jordan A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
    Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Aaron Sorkin A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld 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 Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Carl Sagan A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 58 min 56 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyones responsibility.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    German church leader and resistance fighter (1906 - 1945)
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