Responsibility Quotes · Page 55

The risk to be perceived defines the duty to be obeyed.

— Benjamin N. Cardozo

I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

— Anonymous

The lack of fiscal responsibility is one of the main reasons I finally left my old Party.

— Lincoln Chafee

You can't dodge your responsibilities by saying they don't exist!

— Douglas Adams

Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband.

— William Shakespeare

“You'll get into dreadful trouble and it won't be my fault. You are bad people.”

— Terry Pratchett

Nobody ever makes you do anything, take responsibility for your actions.

— Anonymous

We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility.

— Newton N. Minow

Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future.

— Zig Ziglar

Taking responsibility for being exactly where you are gives you the power to be exactly where you want to be.

— Anonymous

Stop blaming others for what you have or dont have, or for what you feel or dont feel. When you blame others…

— Suman Rai

The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility.

— Charles Handy

I think that it is everyone's obligation they owe to themselves and to their lives to figure out their own way up…

— Erik Weihenmayer

I had to take responsibility, even if it meant saying no to an authority figure, because I was the authority on me.

— Kelley Armstrong

“When you have the chance to right a wrong, in whatever small or large way, you have a duty to step up…

— Steven D. Wolf

I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them…

— Jane Goodall

Speaking about climate change is not a matter of intellectual luxury – the phenomenon is an actual fact … all of the…

— Osama bin Laden

I can't leave India helpless. This responsibility must be taken and I will continue to do so. For all good and bad…

— Narendra Modi

The kind of capitalism we are seeing today under this expansion of property into living resources is a whole, new, different phase…

— Vandana Shiva

It is often said that everything happens for a reason, but you must embrace the perspective that it's never a reason that…

— Hal Elrod

Profound responsibilities come with teaching and coaching. You can do so much good–or harm. It’s why I believe that next to parenting,…

— John Wooden

“The day we finally hold ourselves accountable, rather than putting the blame on others, and come clean about our responsibilities, we unfetter…

— Erik Pevernagie

Love is the productive form of relatedness to others and to oneself. It implies responsibility, care, respect. If it isn't productive and…

— Erich Fromm

The photographer must bear the responsibility for his work and its effect …[for] photographic journalism, because of its tremendous audience reached by…

— W. Eugene Smith

Those accept an obligation lightly who feel lightly about letting it drop.

— Rainis

You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.

— Elia Kazan

“Take more responsibility and you will see more opportunity.”

— Anonymous

I'm only brave when I have to be. Being brave doesn't mean you go looking for trouble. - Mufasa

— The Lion King

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

— Anselm Kiefer

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

— Abigail Adams

Nothing is properly one's duty but what is also one's interest.

— John Wilkins

“In the name of the King, halt!" "In the name of your duty, catch me!”

— Emory Sharplin

I do wish I had brought my cheque book. I don't believe in credit cards.

— Margaret Thatcher

I'm the youngest in a family where I didn't have to take responsibility for much.

— Jennifer Lawrence

Self-responsibility is the necessary foundation upon which all success is built.

— Senora Roy

We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility

— Thomas Szasz

I think we should all have a responsibility not to affect other people in a negative way.

— Ali Hewson

You have a responsibility to listen to the dissent in yourself.

— Joss Whedon

“It a sad fact that in life we seldom get to choose our responsibilities”

— Nigel Hickey

He who defines duty for himself is his own master.

— Dick Cheatham