Responsibility Quotes
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We empower ourselves every time we accept responsibility for choosing the thoughts and feelings we act on.
Karan Casey
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The brown bag, of course, had its imperfections. While some kids carried roast beef sandwiches, others had peanut butter. I have no way of knowing if all of those brown bags contained 'nutritionally adequate diets.' But I do know that those brown bags and those lunch pails symbolized parental love and responsibility.
Charles Mathias
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I feel that we have a responsibility to try to do everything we can to protect species, and the best way to do that is to uphold international conservation law.
Paul Watson
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Becoming a mother has made all the difference in terms of learning to take more responsibility for myself and my life. Parenthood changed the way I do everything.
Jennifer Connelly
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Who will find peace with the lands? The future of humankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things. Who will listen to the trees, the animals and birds, the voices of the places of the land? As the long forgotten peoples of the respective continents rise and begin to reclaim their ancient heritage, they will discover the meaning of the lands of their ancestors. That is when the invaders of the North American continent will finally discover that for this land, God is red.
Vine Deloria, Jr.
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In the interests of everyone the artist had a responsibility to use his medium well. In the Tibetan culture, most of the paintings are of deities or Buddhas, and they try to send a message of the value of the spiritual.
Dalai Lama
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Every defendant knows, if endowed with the mental competence for criminal responsibility, that the life he will take by his homicidal behavior is that of a unique person, like himself, and that the person to be killed probably has close associates, 'survivors,' who will suffer harms and deprivations from the victim's death.
David Souter
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There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.
Steven Spielberg
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I've learned that you have to take responsibility for yourself in this game and lead yourself through it.
Jason Giambi
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Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.
Francis Schaeffer
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I see how people connect with me on different level through my show, how they want to transport what I cook into their home kitchens for their own families. It's my responsibility to always make sure that is quality.
Lidia Bastianich
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The great success of this system is that it makes the general public afraid of taking responsibility, afraid of taking a position or giving a definite answer, or even of making mistakes.
Ai Weiwei
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Young black men in this country have to understand that they have a responsibility. They cannot be the enemy in their own neighborhoods and usurp the effort of good people that are trying to make things work.
Jim Brown
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There are folks who we have a moral responsibility to help, who are going to cost the taxpayers lots of money in the future, so there's a strong argument for us to help them with current cash.
Kevin Hassett
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The high esteem in which the Nobel Prizes are held is undoubtedly due to the conscientious way in which the Committees have discharged a heavy responsibility.
Ernest Walton
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I just had a responsibility to [Taylor Swift] as a friend you know, and I mean thanks for being so cool about it.
Kanye West
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Taking responsibility as a co-creator with God presupposes a basic understanding of how creation works.
Carl Johan Calleman
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Faith is the substance of whatever it is that we hope for. The important thing is that we teach that faith is connected to good works and responsibility.
T. D. Jakes
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There's plenty of time to look at this for a while until either he shows improvement or else we go back to more of a basic offensive standard ... and take that guard responsibility away. Move him into a forward place where he can make plays and he can still be a participant in the offense.
Phil Jackson
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Iraq assumes responsibility for its own future... They have got to step up.
Jeff Sessions
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Assume responsibility for outcomes as well as for the processes and people you work with. How you achieve results will shape the kind of person you become.
C. K. Prahalad
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The most serious blow suffered by the colonized is being removed from history and from the community. Colonization usurps any free role in either war or peace, every decision contributing to his destiny and that of the world, and all cultural and social responsibility.
Albert Memmi
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And, if there was any responsibility in refusing to obey, he was willing to accept it.
John Bigelow
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The responsibility of carrying and bringing a new life into this world is one that cannot be taken lightly.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine