Responsibility Quotes

4281 Responsibility quotes by 2749 unique authors

That's why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to… — Adrienne Rich
Youth need guidance, direction, and proper restraint...Parents, too, have a responsibility in this training not to provoke children to wrath. They should be considerate not… — David O. McKay
Every man's happiness is his own responsibility. — Abraham Lincoln
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end,each of us must work for our own improvement and, at… — Marie Curie
Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no one can find… — Ludwig von Mises
This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you do not choose to control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful things… — Michael Crichton
Rules and responsibilities: these are the ties that bind us. We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we… — Neil Gaiman
Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and… — Bill Gates
I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep… — Fran Lebowitz
The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to… — Flannery O'Connor
What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice. — Ursula K. Le Guin
All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I… — Alberto Manguel
Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm,… — Anne Fadiman
There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is… — Tom Robbins
Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go… — Vandana Shiva
We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where… — Madeleine L'Engle
It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts. — Mahatma Gandhi
Repentance can become a very, very deep phenomenon in you if you understand the responsibility. Then even a small thing, if it becomes a repentance--… — Rajneesh
Sometimes it works out well, and certain household responsibilities fall naturally to those who like doing them. For example, my wife likes to pack suitcases,… — Paul Reiser
Instruction for life: Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don't lose the lesson. Follow the three… — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies. — Noam Chomsky
You feel good, you feel bad, and these feelings are bubbling from your own unconsciousness, from your own past. Nobody is responsible except you. Nobody… — Rajneesh
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. — Stanley Milgram
We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my… — Fred Rogers

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