Responsibility Quotes
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Every prime minister ... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.
Ehud Olmert -
Whatever good there is in the world I inherit from the courage and work of those who went before me. I, in turn, have a responsibility to make things better for those who will inherit the earth from me.
Arthur Dobrin
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Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.
Peter Coyote -
I take responsibility for all of it. It all rests with me. We don't have to look real far to find somebody. I'm to blame.
Joe Gibbs -
What influences our behavior, and what our level of responsibility is, are very complex issues. And anytime we try to make this simplistic, we don't serve people well.
John Ortberg -
we have become masters of projection—pushing the responsibility for our own thoughts outward so that the consequences of our thoughts become someone else's problem.
Darren Main -
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
Peter Drucker -
There is no question that regional responsibility lies on the shoulders of President Milosevic, ... He bears the majority of responsibility.
Javier Solana
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When women got the vote, they did not redefine voting. When African-Americans got the right to sit at a lunch counter alongside white people, they did not redefine eating out. They were simply invited to the table. That is all we want to do; we have no desire to change marriage. We want to be entitled to not only the same privileges but the same responsibilities as straight people.
Cynthia Nixon -
I want the cabinet to stand up and have a spine and a backbone and take responsibility.
Alex Sink -
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 -
Every day carries with it a responsibility.
Joseph B. Wirthlin -
The War Powers Act requires presidents to seek the consent of the American people, through their representatives, before sending our troops into war. It is the responsibility of Congress to deliberate and consult with the executive branch before involving ourselves in a military conflict.
Charles B. Rangel -
From 12-year-old girls to 70-year-old matriarchs, I know hundreds of women who have some sort of body image issue. This is sad and seriously worrying, but it's true, and it's why I feel some kind of social responsibility to do what I can to show a variety of body types in fashion magazines.
Amanda de Cadenet
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Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities of adulthood. This irresponsible period of adolescence is artificially extended by long years of education, much of it wasted on frivolities. Tenure extends adolescence even further for teachers and professors.
Thomas Sowell -
It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.
Warsan Shire -
The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things.
Vine Deloria, Jr. -
Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.
Brian Tracy -
The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.
Napoleon Hill -
I love making movies, and being in any that I can be in. I'd like to be in those giant movies, as the fifth or sixth lead, and have three or four killer scenes. You don't have the responsibility of the entire movie being on you. I like those roles. I'm shooting for the middle.
Bill Burr
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A woman will not understand what true dependency is until she is cradling her own infant in her arms; nor will she likely achieve the self-confidence she craves until she has withstood, and transcended, the weight of responsibility a family places upon her -- a weight that makes all the paperwork and assignments of her in-basket seem feather-light.
Danielle Crittenden -
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
Madeleine Albright -
I believe when you go out there, you have a responsibility to deliver. I have old-fashioned thinking when I'm out there.
Jerry Lewis -
My responsibility is to make judgments about hard, complex issues that I believe to be right.
Jeff Fortenberry