Responsibility Quotes

Hiroshima is like a nakedly exposed wound inflicted on all mankind.

~ Kenzaburō Ōe

The only way we can change our world is to take responsibility for our part in it.

~ Rachael Bermingham

We naturally try to forget our personal tragedies, serious or trifling, as soon as possible (even something as petty as being scorned or disdained by a stranger on a street corner). We try not to carry these things over to tomorrow. It is not strange, therefore, that the whole human race is trying to put Hiroshima, the extreme point of human tragedy, completely out of mind.

~ Kenzaburō Ōe

Completing the circle is both philosophical and tactical - there is a growing sense of mastery that comes with practice, diligence, and experience.

~ Eric Mann

Understand this first and foremost that you are the center of your existence; nobody else is responsible. No matter how burdensome it feels, but you alone are responsible. If you accept this truth all sorrow will soon disappear. Because once it is clear that I am making this game, how long will it take you to destroy it?

~ Osho

We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a business is not to generate extra income and to become rich and transfer the money abroad, but to look and evaluate what a businessman has done for the country, for the people, on whose account he or she has become so rich.

~ Vladimir Putin

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

~ Max De Pree

I wear two hats. The one is business and increasing my shareholders' value the other is social responsibility.

~ Guler Sabanci

The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has long been used as an effective lens through which to examine the actions business can take toward ensuring mutual long-term well-being and sustainability.

~ Klaus Schwab

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

~ Barack Obama

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.

~ Billy Corgan

We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.

~ Aleksander Kwasniewski

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

~ Georg Baselitz

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

~ Marie Curie

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

~ Wendell Berry

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new hope and a new responsibility for all.

~ Erik Erikson

I begin my reign with profound emotion at the honour of accepting the Crown, aware of the responsibility it entails and with the greatest hope for the future of Spain.

~ Felipe Vi Of Spain

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don't take counsel of your fears.

~ Thomas S. Monson

No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.

~ Josh Radnor

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.

~ Shawn Johnson

Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.

~ Sandra Day O'connor

Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.

~ Horst Koehler

Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?

~ Robert Casey

It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics, to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.

~ John Major

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

~ Jane Goodall

I respect the Congress's oversight responsibility.

~ Hillary Clinton

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.

~ Leon Kass

Now is the time to show maximum responsibility. It is not the time to pay off old scores nor for sterile partisan recriminations. It is time to re-establish a climate of calmness and mutual respect.

~ Giorgio Napolitano

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

~ Les Brown

There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.

~ William Shatner

In dreams begins responsibility.

~ William Butler Yeats

Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.

~ Garry Trudeau

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.

~ Leo Tolstoy

What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

~ Stephen King

When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.

~ Rose Kennedy

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

~ Evan Bayh

If kids can have some sort of social responsibility, that's cool. But if they're not actually having social responsibility, and they're kind of hiding behind it, that's kind of useless, or even worse.

~ Diplo

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.

~ Pope Benedict Xvi

Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

~ Sally Ride