Responsibility Quotes

• The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

  

  Max Weber
  • Responsibility

• When you're at the lower levels in the organization, you need to win and be right. But as you move up, you need to let other people win and be right, and become a manager and delegate responsibility.

  

  Marshall Goldsmith
  • People
  • Up
  • Organization

• I feel like it's my responsibility and my obligation to stand up and to say that which I believe to be the truth.

  

  Jimmy Swaggart
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Truth

• Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Responsibility
  • Sense
  • Individuals

• What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• Your fundamental responsibility is to stay true to the deepest nature and intention of the materials.

  

  David Milch
  • True
  • Nature
  • Responsibility

• As a Greek-American, I am especially pleased that Ambassador Negroponte has earned the honor of being nominated to this most prominent position of responsibility in the intelligence community. He is a role model to all Greek-Americans, making the entire Hellenic community proud.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • American
  • Community
  • Proud

• You know, I wish the world well. I want Iraq to have democracy and the Haitians to have democracy. I want the people of Afghanistan to thrive. Lord knows, we spend enough money there to help them. What about people at home? Isn't that our first responsibility?

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• If and when the war starts(WW2), no matter where or whoever you are or if you are young or old, Northner or Southner, you all have the responsibility of protecting our home and repelling the enemy, you all must have the will to achieve ultimate sacrifice.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek
  • Home
  • War
  • Enemy

• My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There was a responsibility on my shoulders to run the household. It was my duty as the eldest child in the house.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Father
  • Death
  • House

• Social justice is a cancer. Social justice means you are ruled by whatever the mob does. What social justice does is destroy individual responsibility.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Responsibility
  • Justice
  • Cancer

• I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia's number one servant. Servant - one who serves the nation, not one whom the nation serves.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Responsibility
  • Same
  • Nation

• I think what both Republicans and Democrats need to do and the leaders on both sides is to recognize that if sequester takes place, it would be disastrous for our national defense and very frankly for a lot of very important domestic programs. They have a responsibility to come together, find the money necessary to de-trigger sequester.

  

  Leon Panetta
  • Important
  • Money
  • Together

• I never wanted children; maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Children
  • Responsibility

• When I was younger, it was like, 'Yay, lesbians love me!' I didn't know there was a responsibility that came with it.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Love
  • Me
  • Responsibility

• But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility.

  

  David Blunkett
  • Up
  • Responsibility
  • Perception

• There must not be favoured treatment for those occupying a position of public responsibility.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Responsibility
  • Public
  • Must

• We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Responsibility
  • Improvement
  • Inventory

• It’s our responsibility to continue to address the gender and racial gap and reflect the full mosaic of executive talent. Actions speak louder than words. We’re very proud at Epic to have one of the most diverse staffs in the business.

  

  Sylvia Rhone
  • Business
  • Responsibility
  • Actions

• We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Control
  • Responsibility
  • Philosophy

• One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.

  

  Tom Skerritt
  • Money
  • Writer
  • Director

• You have to take responsibility for how you act. You can't fix everyone.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Responsibility

• If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For the best part of two centuries, we British ruled the waves, controlled two-fifths of the planet, and believed it was our responsibility to bring civilisation to those who allegedly lacked it.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Racism

• I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • People
  • Believe
  • Question

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