We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy. — John Green Copy Share Image
Any plan of administration which contemplates a concentrating of responsibility is open to the dangers which follow the creation of a bureaucracy. — Arthur Capper Copy Share Image
A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if I've been wronged - I still have a responsibility to use my influence in a way that never… — Shaun King Copy Share Image
Blame is a neat little device that you can use whenever you don't want to take responsibility for something in your life.… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“Nobody’s in charge there, nobody has responsibility, nor can anybody require that they do work.” — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
It is a very heavy responsibility [to be a prime-minister] to make, but someone has to make it for our country and… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they'll… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
My father volunteered in early 1941, before Pearl Harbor, and became an officer in the U.S. Navy. As I was growing up,… — Chesley Sullenberger Copy Share Image
for someone such as myself, who is kind of feckless and immature, it's better to have rich friends than to be rich… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I don't ever like to feel myself in the position to demand of an actor that they trust I'm going to do… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Men. They were all so incredibly easy to sway. Pat them on their heads, give them something to eat, and they'll follow… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
Yes, it is long past time we get serious about tackling the nation's ever-growing deficits. But the average American family drawn into… — Peter Welch Copy Share Image
The genius writer was correct. In obtaining freedom, man suddenly understands that he has shouldered a heavy burden, because freedom involves responsibility.… — Alexander Lukashenko Copy Share Image
There is no definitive list of the duties of a stage manager that is applicable to all theaters and staging environments. Regardless… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I feel like it's a duty of mine to make sure that I'm helping out as much as I can, knowing that… — Travis Kelce Copy Share Image
I go through periods where I feel very confident about stuff but other periods that are insecure... I find doing different stuff… — Eoin Macken Copy Share Image
I want to remind all Americans that the Senate has a very important responsibility to confirm only well- qualified individuals who will… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
“The problem of responsibility would have a meaning only if we had been consulted before our birth and had consented to be… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed, — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every time we go into the voting booth, we are choosing the moral and spiritual direction of our nation. That is a… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
We do take seriously our responsibility, and growing ability, to educate people about healthy eating and giving them greater access to nourishing… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly,… — Angela Y. Davis Copy Share Image
All these young millionaires were anarchists, of course: when a man possesses everything it is the supreme luxury for him to deny… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
As elected leaders, it is our collective responsibility to set standards of respect and elevate understanding between the communities we represent. — Dean Phillips Copy Share Image
“Do you think people love having jobs, Sylvia asks Peter in because they offer a condoned but false responsibility that masks, for… — David Bajo Copy Share Image
If you're playing any real person, live or dead, you certainly have a responsibility to produce that reputation in some way. — Jim Broadbent Copy Share Image
I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive. — Jane Byrne Copy Share Image
I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful. — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
To each of us is entrusted the heavy responsibility of guiding the affairs of a democratic nation founded on Christian ideals. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“When good results happen, Level 5 Leaders credit good luck. When results are disappointing, Level 5 Leaders blame only themselves and take responsibility.” — Eighty Twenty Publishing Copy Share Image
You must assume full responsibility for choosing to pursue power. Know that you alone have chosen to be tested, and then proceed… — Mike Livingston Copy Share Image
“Now especially since man has the strength to destroy the world, it is the responsibility of man to keep it alive, in… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
When employees join executives in truly owning the responsibility for business success, an exciting new sense of teamwork takes hold. — Punit Renjen Copy Share Image
The security of the citizens of Israel, the future of the state of Israel, this is the Israeli governments responsibility. — Avigdor Lieberman Copy Share Image