Responsibility Quotes

It’s one thing to fall in love. It’s another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.

~ David Levithan

Men and women were doing at their unsurpassed when they were together. It was more or less like the sky and the ground, diverse in nature and was miles apart but they complete each other.

~ Diyar Harraz

Just like in the eye of the storm there is always comfort within the chaos. Becoming aware of this however, is your responsibility.

~ Gary Hopkins

Failing to fulfill your responsibilities is not only a reflection of your priorities, but also your integrity. Your actions define your character not the words you utter.

~ Tyconis D. Allison Ty

If we lose our significance (character) we fall in ruin. The exploiters take over and sell freedom from fear, from guilt, from want. They excuse all corrupt actions. Collective status degenerates the human spirit.

~ Moxie Will

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Democracy is government by the people, for the people. Without the responsibility of the people, and without the involvement of the people - all you have left is GOVERNMENT.

~ Christina Engela

We often blame our government for their lack of responsibility, socially and politically. We forget that that is only a result of the societal irresponsibility in general.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Always remember: When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

It may sound reactionary, I know. But we can all feel it. We've changed the way we think of ourselves as citizens. We don't think of ourselves as citizens in the old sense of being small parts of something larger and infinitely more important to which we have serious responsibilities. We do still think of ourselves as citizens in the sense of being beneficiaries--we're actually conscious of our rights as American citizens and the nation's responsibilities to us and ensuring we get our share of the American pie. We think of ourselves now as eaters of the pie instead of makers of the pie. So who makes the pie?...Something has happened where we've decided on a personal level that it's all right to abdicate our individual responsibility to the common good and let government worry about the common good while we all go about our individual self-interested business and struggle to gratify our various appetites.

~ David Foster Wallace

Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipw

~ Guy De Maupassant

As for the journey of life, at some point you will realize that YOU are the driver and you will drive!

~ Steve Maraboli

All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege, to blame others, unexpectedly stung.

~ Megan Whalen Turner

We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.

~ Sean Covey

The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've gotresponsibilities.

~ Richard Bach

I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.

~ Rachel Caine

Respectfully, sir, the asteroid did not make you leave her. The asteroid is not making anyone do anything. It's just a big piece of rock floating through space. Anything anyone does remains their own decision.

~ Ben H. Winters

fruit of passive-aggressive people. These people resist demands by indirect tactics. They will not take responsibility for their own choices; instead, they turn around and blame someone else for making them do it. Or they will agree to do things that they don’t really want to do, and then gripe about the person behind her back.

~ Henry Cloud

Winning is not just a moment of glory, it’s a journey of peaks and valleys.Perseverance Matters!Winning is a habit.Small wins matter!Winning is an attitude.Mindset Matters!Winning is a choice.Hard work matters!Winning is your responsibility.Winning matters!

~ Farshad Asl

Man is fully responsible for his nature, choices and lifestyle.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

We are defined by how we choose to exist. Responsibility towards and contribution to society is part of how we make a difference. Every human being wants to make a difference, one of the ways we might do this is through our contribution to communities .

~ Sameh Elsayed

I don't know how often opportunity knocks, but temptations to make foul decisions bang on my door all day long. And smelly decisions make for smelly problems later on. A few little decisions, good or bad, can make a big difference in a life. Better to run from those skunks than with them.

~ Steve Goodier

Practical management of your time includes taking responsibility of your choices.

~ Julie Connor

Empowerment is being aware that there is no one to blame for my choices and actions, that I have a personal choice and responsibility for my life.

~ Steve Maraboli

The actions and emotional responses of others are not your responsibility. You cannot rescue people from themselves. This is for them to do. — André Chevalier

~ Nikki Sex

[On famous Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr][Niels] Bohr's sort of humor, use of parables and stories, tolerance, dependence on family, feelings of indebtedness, obligation, and guilt, and his sense of responsibility for science, community, and, ultimately, humankind in general, are common traits of the Jewish intellectual. So too is a well-fortified atheism. Bohr ended with no religious belief and a dislike of all religions that claimed to base their teachings on revelations.

~ Finn Aaserud

When gods die, self-respect buds', murmured Orland Fank. 'Gods and their examples are not needed by those who respect themselves and, consequently, respect others. Gods are for children, for little, fearful people, for those who would have no responsibility to themselves or their fellows.

~ Michael Moorcock

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.

~ George R.r. Martin

...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword....a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

~ George R.r. Martin

In our tribunal, we look only at personal criminal responsibility in a very tightly defined, narrow way and we demand proof beyond a resonable doubt about the involvement of the individual. We do no have a mandate to establish the moral responsibility of those who saw things happen and did nothing, including people who might have had the capacity to stop the process and did nothing. But we have to be careful in thinking that just because we focus on individual criminal guilt we therefore absolve the community. The old distinctions are too simplistic when we move up the chain of command and witness the merging of the collectivity into the personae of these charismatic political and military leaders.'-Louise Arbour, Chief Prosecutor for International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

~ Erna Paris

It is about doing the most good with the only two hands I can control.

~ Marquita Burke-Dejesus

The white man will never be alone. Let him be just, and deal kindly with my people. For the dead are not powerless.

~ Chief Seattle

It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

The concept of disease is fast replacing the concept of responsibility. With increasing zeal Americans use and interpret the assertion I am sick as equivalent to the assertion I am not responsible: Smokers say they are not responsible for smoking, drinkers that they are not responsible for drinking, gamblers that they are not responsible for gambling, and mothers who murder their infants that they are not responsible for killing. To prove their point — and to capitalize on their self-destructive and destructive behavior — smokers, drinkers, gamblers, and insanity acquitees are suing tobacco companies, liquor companies, gambling casinos, and physicians.

~ Thomas Szasz

We act individually to collectively clean our communities.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The time to clean our city of any dirt begins individual action for collective clean communities.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can’t do it for someone else. No matter how much they motivate or inspire you, you have to do it for yourself. Your health is YOUR responsibility.

~ Toni Sorenson

It didn't matter he was brilliant and dedicated and good. He was a child. He was young.No he isn't, thought Ender. Small, yes. Bur Bean has been through a battle with a whole army depending on him and on the soldiers that he led. and he performed splendidly, and the won. There's no youth in that. No childhood.

~ Orson Scott Card

We are to count on this fact that we are dead to sin's rule, that we can stand up to it and say no. Therefore we are to guard our bodies so that sin does not reign in us. So we see that God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we can now resist sin. But the responsibility for resisting is ours.

~ Jerry Bridges