Responsibility Quotes

• You don’t have to ask permission to take responsibility.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Responsibility
  • Ask
  • Permission

• I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Organization
  • Lines
  • Deals

• Because if I break, they'll break too. It's a responsibility I'd never really felt before, or at least I never thought about enough to name. But, Bo's actions just cement my place in my family. He can walk away from the dinner table. I can't.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Family
  • Name
  • Dinner Table

• The way out then is personal responsibility, new operating systems downloaded from outside of culture, which means from the deeper wisdom of the psychedelic plants and then a commitment to community and a motto of "To the future, without fear!" Without fear!

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Culture
  • Community
  • Mean

• Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

  

  Seth Berkley
  • Responsibility
  • Vision
  • Leadership

• There's a lot of power and responsibility that comes with owning who you are as a woman.

  

  Mia Goth
  • Power
  • Responsibility

• The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Responsibility
  • Behavior
  • Consequence

• I'm learning a lot by reading teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron. They teach me because I feel like I have a responsibility to the communities that I speak to.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Community
  • Reading
  • Teacher

• Maybe the body is taking responsibility where the mind is not. It's scrapbooking for us.

  

  Heidi Julavits
  • Mind
  • Responsibility
  • Body

• I have to be a leader now. I need to shoulder responsibility more than I used to. It's changed me, but I'm OK with that.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead
  • Responsibility

• Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown. And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Community
  • Presidential
  • Election

• How long before we white people get over our bitter resentments about being demoted to the status of equality with non-whites? . . . How long until we white people will stop insisting that blacks exercise personal responsibility, build strong families, educate themselves enough to edit the Harvard Law Review, and work hard enough to become President of the United States, only to threaten to assassinate them when they do?

  

  Andrew Manis
  • Responsibility
  • Status
  • Blacks

• Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Media
  • Advantage
  • Political Party

• Marriage takes perseverance and determination. There are always opportunities to walk away from marriage but I feel very strongly that you have a responsibility once you start a family.

  

  Betty Churcher
  • Women
  • Opportunity
  • Determination

• When you take out individual initiative, individual responsibility, and the hope that every individual is born with, to better their lives, to climb the economic ladder, to pursue happiness, that is, in fact, a neoslavery.

  

  Niger Innis
  • Happiness
  • Born
  • Slavery

• I've learned that being a superhero isn't all glitz and glamour. We think if we have a special power, our problem will go away. It's just a new set of problems. Being a superhero alienates you and separates you from humanity. As Spiderman famously said, 'With great power comes great responsibility.'

  

  Josh Keaton
  • Power
  • Problem
  • Responsibility

• Everyone has a common, yet unique, responsibility to the future: to make the most of today.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Today
  • Unique
  • Common

• In the long term, it will be the human race that must take responsibility for the development of sustainable life-styles and economies that are not insistent on continuing growth and a throw away society.

  

  David de Kretser
  • Environment
  • Growth
  • Economy

• We have a sacred responsibility to fulfill the threefold mission of the Church—first, to teach the gospel to the world; second, to strengthen the membership of the Church wherever they may be; third, to move forward the work of salvation for the dead.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Work
  • Church
  • Salvation

• Life is moral responsibility.

  

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
  • Responsibility
  • Life is

• Like most severely overweight people, I had to hit a rock-hard bottom before I'd take responsibility for the consequences of neglecting my own health.

  

  Stephen Furst
  • Health
  • Bottom
  • Overweight

• Ultimately, the decision to save the environment must come from the human heart. The key point is a call for a genuine sense of universal responsibility that is based on love, compassion and clear awareness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Heart
  • Environment
  • Decision

• I think it is the responsibility of anyone involved in politics to always think of what Japan can do to contribute more to the peace and stability not just of Japan and the region but of the entire world.

  

  Shinzo Abe
  • World
  • Involved
  • Stability

• The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.

  

  Richard Lugar
  • Responsibility
  • Poverty
  • Disease

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