Responsibility Quotes

• Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor. o

  

  Fab Five Freddy
  • God
  • Honor
  • Healthy

• A trustee has a responsibility to guard the assets of others with a higher degree of care than he does his own.

  

  John Ashcroft
  • Responsibility

• One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ' an unjust law is no law at all.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Responsibility
  • Laws
  • St. Augustine

• We are not here just to speak great words and then say it’s not our responsibility. We are determined to come to power.

  

  Svyatoslav Vakarchuk Okean Elzy
  • Power
  • Responsibility
  • Speak

• The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights of individuals. But the Court must also recognize the limits on itself and respect the choices made by the American people.

  

  Elena Kagan
  • People
  • American
  • Respect

• The more our children see men being paid to take responsibility for children, the more respectable it will be for men to do work compatible with their role as dads.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Work
  • Men
  • Children

• I have the responsibility to let the people know what happened to me, and did I commit the crime or if I didn’t, what is the real accusation? Why am I in this condition today? I think it reflects our human condition in this piece of land, and if I don’t bear some responsibility . . . . many, many people, their voice can never be heard.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• Kurt Cobain was Nirvana. He named the band, hired its members, played guitar, wrote the songs, fronted the band onstage and in interviews, and took responsibility for the band's business decisions.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Business
  • Band
  • Interviews

• It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action.

  

  Edward Livingston
  • Hope
  • Knowledge
  • Action

• I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's gullets for which neither party has the fortitude to assume full responsibility. It's a way of turning a possible gangplank into a teeter-totter.

  

  James Wolcott
  • People
  • American
  • Party

• I love making music but with that comes a lot of responsibility and you have to put yourself out there more. I'm learning as I go. The music has drawn me out of my shell. It's made me open my door a little more and be able to look at people in the eye. In that sense of the word, it has been helpful to me so I am happy now.

  

  Daniel Powter
  • People
  • Eye
  • Helpful

• I started my political life in the Resistance. It was there that I had my first responsibility.

  

  Francois Mitterrand
  • Life
  • Political
  • Politics

• The Fourth Industrial Revolution demands that CEOs take responsibility for the massive transformation of their businesses and for the extraordinary impact that this transformation will have on wider society.

  

  Pierre Nanterme
  • Society
  • Revolution
  • Transformation

• Food safety oversight is largely, but not exclusively, divided between two agencies, the FDA and the USDA. The USDA mostly oversees meat and poultry; the FDA mostly handles everything else, including pet food and animal feed. Although this division of responsibility means that the FDA is responsible for 80% of the food supply, it only gets 20% of the federal budget for this purpose. In contrast, the USDA gets 80% of the budget for 20% of the foods. This uneven distribution is the result of a little history and a lot of politics.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • History
  • Food
  • Purpose

• In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.

  

  Carol Gilligan
  • Different
  • Women
  • Truth

• Responsibility is fostered by allowing children a voice and wherever indicated a choice in matters that affect them.

  

  Haim Ginott
  • Children
  • Responsibility

• And then when they picked me as premiere, I don't think I feel, you know, different. For me, the position mean responsibility, but that's all.

  

  Nguyen Cao Ky
  • Different
  • Responsibility

• The most important thing today is for young people to take responsibility, to actually know how to formulate an idea and how to work on it. Not to buy into the so-called apprenticeship.

  

  Sydney Brenner
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Idea

• It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard!

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Responsibility
  • Successes

• God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • People
  • Mind
  • Sick

• 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.

  

  Jim Rohn
  • Responsibility
  • Wind

• My responsibility is to the artist first. There's something that artists intrinsically know about their music and their fanbase that neither the record company nor the producer really knows.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • Music
  • Responsibility

• I reckon I've done my bit. I want to enjoy myself a bit now, with less responsibility, less frantic rushing about, less preparation, less trying to think of something to say.

  

  Prince Philip
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Preparation

• The bar for a chief executive of a public corporation to repudiate a United States president is extraordinarily high. Corporate leaders aren't given their power, prestige, responsibility, and nine-figure pay packages to use the corner office as their personal soapbox.

  

  James B. Stewart
  • Power
  • High
  • Responsibility

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