Responsibility Quotes

"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."

"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."

"When you first have a baby your life doesn't change. I mean, you have a little less sleep and you drag these cuddly things around you and it's just amazing. But you still get to be you. Once they get to, like, five, six and school and it starts to get, like, 'Wow, they got real problems. They're my responsibility.' Oh my God. That is overwhelming."

"To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist."

"I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize."

"What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying."

"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of."

"Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it."

"Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming."

"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."

"The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future."

"I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through."

"Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner."

"The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power."

"Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done."

"No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair."

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

"In dreams begins responsibility."

"Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being."

"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."

"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"

"The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family."

"The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education."

"Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated."

"We are each responsible for all of our experiences."

"Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply."

"The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision."

"As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified."

"Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."

"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals."

"Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."

"Duty cannot exist without faith."

"With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve."

"I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility."

"God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility and I do."

"Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy."

"While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure."

"Never mind your happiness do your duty."

"There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so."

"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."

"Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."

"You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters."

"Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the child's background and health to assure the best fit and be prepared."

"The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality."

"Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation."

"I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment."

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

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself."

"Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses."

"It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it."