Responsibility Quotes

• I think associate director jobs are the best in the world, because you can do what you want and not have to take responsibility for it!

  

  John Tiffany
  • World
  • Responsibility

• If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way.

  

  Erik Erikson
  • Strong
  • Concern
  • Ultimate

• 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
  • Earth
  • Responsibility
  • Inherit

• Steve Bellamy is a natural choice for this award for being able to dream of what could and should be done in tennis at any level and take on the responsibility of making it happen and getting it done. He is creative, innovative, likeable and sometimes a maverick while developing a meeting of the minds of people at all levels whether on the court or in the boardroom.

  

  Bob Larson
  • Dream
  • Choice
  • Tennis

• Long before the arrival of reality TV - before speed cameras, before recording angels on buses and lampposts - I felt I was living in a country that already knew how to watch itself. It was journalism that held the responsibility for seeing who we were and noticing what we did.

  

  Andrew O'Hagan
  • Long
  • Country
  • Reality

• Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Challenges
  • Share

• One of the first lessons running teaches us about success in athletics and in life is that there is no one else. No one else can do your workouts for you. You alone must do the drills, repeat the core exercises, stretch, and lift the weights. You cannot hire someone else to do your cross-training when you are battling injury, or pay someone to run a race and get you a new PR. You are truly your own hero in running. It is up to you to have the responsibility and self-discipline to get the job done.

  

  Adam Goucher
  • Running
  • Responsibility
  • Lessons

• Players have responsibilities, because, whether they like it or not, they are public figures. They have to be aware that the people who come to the ground spend fortunes in relation to what they earn.

  

  Gerard Houllier
  • People
  • Player
  • Fortune

• Maturity begins on the day we accept responsibility for our own actions.

  

  Richard L. Evans
  • Action
  • Accepting
  • Maturity

• I have a responsibility to the worker, both blue-collar and white-collar. I have an equal responsibility to the community. It would have been unconscionable to put 3,000 people on the streets and deliver a deathblow to the cities of Lawrence and Methuen. Maybe on paper our company is worthless to Wall Street, but I can tell you it's worth more.

  

  Aaron Feuerstein
  • Community
  • Responsibility
  • Worker

• Responsibility is the choice we make to respond with care.

  

  Wayne Visser
  • Responsibility
  • Care

• The idea that musicians/artists have a responsibility to be community leaders or "role models" is problematic to me because I really believe that some of the most exciting art is not community-minded at least in any obvious or direct way, which is not to say that it is not ethical or consciousness-changing.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Artist

• I think as a veteran player, in general, you should feel that sense of responsibility to try to lead these guys to becoming good pros. You want the league to be in good hands, and you want these guys to become great NFL players and then pass it along to the next generation. You can only lead by example, and that's pretty much what I'm trying to do.

  

  Champ Bailey
  • Player
  • League
  • Veteran

• 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
  • Problem
  • Consequence
  • Masters

• In the best of all worlds, the producers would take some responsibility for the kinds of things they're putting out. Unfortunately, they don't.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Responsibility

• For me, the political part of being an actor is very tough. To sit somewhere and tell somebody why you should feel this way or that way about my character does not feel like my responsibility. It feels like the responsibility of the writer and the person who created it.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Character
  • Way
  • Actor

• The only thing more difficult than being a God is being Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke has all these responsibilities, to save the planet. To save the world. To redeem Thom Yorke.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • World
  • Responsibility
  • Difficult

• If people want to eat meat, they should kill the animals for themselves... Nor should they say that if they did not do it the slaughter would still go on.. Every person who eats meat takes a share in that degradation of his fellow-men; on him and on her personally lies the share, and personally lies the responsibility.

  

  Annie Besant
  • People
  • Men
  • Lies

• The very ingredients that nurture love - mutuality, reciprocity, protection, worry, responsibility for the other - are sometimes the very ingredients that stifle desire.

  

  Esther Perel
  • Desire
  • Sometimes
  • Worry

• People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then?

  

  Marion Barry
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Water

• I do not have any official responsibilities related to the Australian Olympic Committee or the Federation of Athletic Associations since I am too busy with my private business.

  

  Cathy Freeman
  • Busy
  • Association
  • Athletic

• I love to sit down on a beanbag at the end of the day and watch my fish. It's therapeutic, isn't it? They're alive, and I'm keeping them alive. I like the responsibility.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Responsibility

• Guilt is an emotion that is never very far away from Rick Grimes. He's a man that shoulders the responsibility, and it's one of the forces that keeps pushing him on.

  

  Andrew Lincoln
  • Responsibility

• I feel I have a responsibility to myself, a responsibility to explain where we're coming from. Because a song or the performance of a song is a lot like a work of art.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Work
  • Art
  • Song

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