Responsibility Quotes
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The first responsibility of the state is to guarantee the safety of the people.
Ricardo Salinas Pliego -
Under your shoulders. Dear young people of the entire world, weigh the responsibility to transform tomorrow's world into a society where peace, harmony, and fraternity reign.
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
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As I see it, we are all connected and share a stake in our collective future. We are all part of a greater picture. I greatly encourage businesswomen everywhere in the world to take personal responsibility, stay connected to their own intuition and unique potential, work hard, deal with reality, but don't give up.
Shari Arison -
Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility.
Simon Mainwaring -
Though my mom had too many of her own dreams denied, deferred and destroyed, she instilled in me that I could have dreams. And not just have dreams but had a responsibility to make them reality. My mom taught me from a very early age that I could do anything I wanted to do.
Chris Gardner -
I usually go with roles that I find entertaining. But every once in a while, there comes along a film that has an important social message. As actors, we have a certain responsibility toward our audience.
Boman Irani -
All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government.
Steven Hatfill -
All socialism involves slavery.... That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labors under coercion to satisfy another's desires. The relation admits of many gradations. Oppressive taxation is a form of slavery of the individual to the community as a whole. The essential question is -- How much is he compelled to labor for other benefit than his own, and how much can he labor for his own benefit?
Herbert Spencer
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Always remember: When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.
Bill Mollison -
To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.
Steve Toltz -
You don’t have to ask permission to take responsibility.
Edwin Catmull -
Now our job, our duty, our responsibility to ensure the safety and security of our citizens cannot be complete unless we guarantee health care security for our citizens.
Tom Vilsack -
I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.
Tony Blair
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Democracy is our most valuable possession. Upholding it is our duty and our responsibility. This means a continuous, decisive and self-confident argument; it means effort and endeavor to reach compromise and long-lasting consensus. These form the cornerstones of the only form of political system that can guarantee freedom.
Wolfgang Thierse -
The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.
Eugenio Montale -
I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world.
Richard Lugar -
With dreams comes responsibility.
Nick Bollettieri -
The federal government has a responsibility to address climate change. The federal government can continue to regulate corporations, tax polluters and incentivize the use of renewable forms of energy.
Juan Vargas -
When people have hearing loss, I think they often take that burden and pass it on to their friends and family, and we make them scream and yell at us so we can hear! But I think it's better to take responsibility and wear hearing aids!
Norm Crosby
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The husband who 'serves' his wife by continually yielding to her desires or her wishes is in fact asking her to do his job for him. He's ignoring his responsibility to lead.
Bob Lepine -
It's easy to give your opinion in front of the television without any responsibility.
Ronald Koeman -
I'm willing to deal with the consequences and accept responsibility for my actions.
Michael Vick -
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