Responsibility Quotes

4281 Responsibility quotes by 2749 unique authors

The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and… — Patti Smith
The human instinct for self-preservation is strong. I know, because mine pulls at me, too, like the needle on a compass. And everybody - I've… — Nancy Werlin
Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and… — D. H. Lawrence
Here's to responsibility," he toasted. "Twice a week." "And recklessness every day in between," I emphasized. He grinned and touched his can to mine. — Stephenie Meyer
It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are… — Miguel de Cervantes
Perhaps the great renewal of the world will consist of this, that man and woman, freed of all confused feelings and desires, shall no longer… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- ) — Nikki Giovanni
To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility. — Steve Toltz
As it turned out, though, it was a lot easier to say that someone deserved to die for what they did than it was to… — Jodi Picoult
I'm not much but I'm all I have. — Philip K. Dick
Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases — Barbara Taylor Bradford
He was the firstborn Bridgerton of a firstborn Bridgerton of a firstborn Bridgerton eight times over. He had a dynastic responsibility to be fruitful and… — Julia Quinn
I feel a sense of responsibility," said Jordan. "And where is this feeling located? In your pants, perhaps? — Cassandra Clare
Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust. — Robert Jordan
Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how… — Patrick Ness
He ran as he'd never run before, with neither hope nor despair. He ran because the world was divided into opposites and his side had… — Karl Marlantes
you can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today — Abraham Lincoln
At the time, sword and sorcery stories were quite popular. There were female warriors waving swords around as well, but the genre is populated entirely… — Hayao Miyazaki
Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nature consists of facts and of regularities, and is in itself neither moral nor immoral. It is we who impose our standards upon nature, and… — Karl Popper
I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can. — Gregory Maguire
Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity… — Eudora Welty
It's like a fugue of evaded responsibility. — David Foster Wallace
People want guidance, not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is, and how it will be implemented. They want to be… — Howard Schultz
Often the greatest act of courage is admitting that one has made a mistake...Follow your hearts. Protect one another, trust one another, because, at the… — Michael Scott

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