Responsibility Quotes

4281 Responsibility quotes by 2749 unique authors

Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for… — Stephen Covey
Rich people...take responsibility for the results in their lives and act upon the mind-set "It will work because I'll make it work." — T. Harv Eker
No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility. — Peter Drucker
If I had to reduce the responsibilities of a good follower to a single rule, it would be to speak truth to power. — Warren G. Bennis
But we assure the socialists that we repudiate only forced organization, not natural organization. We repudiate the forms of association that are forced upon us,… — Frederic Bastiat
It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility entails. Will they… — Frederic Bastiat
The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim… — Lysander Spooner
The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is… — Ayn Rand
In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves. — Walter E. Williams
The American heritage was one of individual liberty, personal responsibility and freedom from government ... Unfortunately ... that heritage has been lost. Americans no longer… — Harry Browne
The police can't stop an intruder, mugger, or stalker from hurting you. They can pursue him only after he has hurt or killed you. Protecting… — Harry Browne
It's amazing how someone's IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them. — Tim Ferriss
If humankind would accept and acknowledge this responsibility and become creatively engaged in the process of evolution, consciously as well as unconsciously, a new reality… — Jonas Salk
It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in… — Carl Sagan
About two million years ago, man appeared. He has become the dominant species on the earth. All other living things, animal and plant, live by… — George Wald
...God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we now can resist sin. But the… — Jerry Bridges
The first world is going to have to account for this sort of horrible poverty in our midst. We have to, first of all, become… — Martin Sheen
I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and women of goodwill:… — Pope Francis
Our leaders must remember that education doesn't begin with some isolated bureaucrat in Washington. It doesn't even begin with state or local officials. Education begins… — Ronald Reagan
Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns upon… — Mark Twain
My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to… — Bertrand Russell
Our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't escape each other. Therefore, we… — William J. Clinton
Let's create an integrated global community where we have shared benefits and responsibilities, and we don't fight because of our differences. — William J. Clinton
Great American power and responsibility are not unprecedented, and have been used with restraint and great benefit in the past. We have not assumed that… — Jimmy Carter
Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define themselves as profit-making… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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