Responsibility Quotes

• But in Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility.

  

  Melissa Bean
  • Congress
  • Demand
  • Accountability

• The people gave me the responsibility of building the future of this nation And I did it with honor.

  

  Judy Reyes
  • People
  • Honor
  • Building

• I'm a representative of something that's greater than myself. When you see me out there on the track, I'm not just representing myself or my country, I'm representing Christ and what He's done through me. I have a responsibility to show His love and show others what He's done for me. It's also freed me up.

  

  Elana Meyers
  • Love
  • Christ
  • Track

• We think we have a responsibility. And I think it's important for all of us in the Western world to realize that we've all been blessed a lot and if you go to these parts they don't have a lot, even before the tsunami.

  

  Kevin Rollins
  • World
  • Important
  • Blessed

• Aesthetics is not an end in itself. But in our culture, which is becoming more multi-sensory and less respectful of God, we have a responsibility to pay attention to the design of the space where we assemble regularly. In the emerging culture, darkness represents spirituality. We see this in Buddhist temples, as well as Catholic and Orthodox churches. Darkness communicates that something serious is happening.

  

  Dan Kimball
  • Design
  • Catholic
  • Darkness

• One practical point many experts will attest to is that if you want to develop someone as a leader, give them lots of responsibility early in their lives and careers. The military does that. I can remember being officer of the deck on a destroyer, on watch and in charge at two in the morning as we plowed through the Mediterranean while 300 shipmates slept below decks. I was 25 at the time. I don't know how much of a leader I ever became, but the experience certainly brought home to me a sense of responsibility for others.

  

  Walter Kiechel
  • Giving
  • Morning
  • Military

• It's the federal government's responsibility to secure our borders. We passed Senate Bill 1070 as another tool in order to protect the citizens of Arizona. We have over 500,000 illegal immigrants living in Arizona. And we simply cannot sustain it.

  

  Jan Brewer
  • Responsibility

• It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.

  

  Alexander Crummell
  • Power
  • Responsibility
  • Rarest

• I'm never going to be one of those guys who gets on TV and yells and screams. That's not how I do my business. But I'm very aware of social responsibility.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • Business
  • Responsibility

• I feel a responsibility, as I get older, to be responsible to what I've experienced, to what I've lived and been in a position to witness. I realize now that as a consequence of having lived the life I have, quite apart from the one, as I understand it, lived by most American writers, maybe I now know some things and have some stories to tell that others don't know about or wouldn't be able to tell. Maybe there's an intrinsic value in that lived experience and knowledge, though of course what you do with it is everything.

  

  Francisco Goldman
  • Responsibility
  • Everything
  • Realizing

• To be an atheist you have to have ten thousand times more imagination than if you are a religious fundamentalist. You must take the responsibility to acquire information, digest and use it to understand what you can.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Imagination
  • Religious
  • Atheist

• If a columnist writes that something happened on a certain date, or that the government spent a certain amount of money on something, or that a specific number of people have died in the war in Iraq, to pick a few examples, it is his or her responsibility to make certain that information is correct.

  

  Andrew Rosenthal
  • People
  • Money
  • War

• I've been successful because I've never been someone to shy away from taking responsibility.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead
  • Responsibility

• Look for and find the really good horses in your organization and run them hard. Push them and challenge them with greater levels of responsibility.

  

  Hal Moore
  • Responsibility
  • Horses

• Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility

• It is an act of responsibility to exhaust every possibility in averting this (deal).

  

  Kyriakos Mitsotakis
  • Responsibility
  • Deal
  • Avert

• Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Responsibility
  • Prefer
  • Retain

• Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Humanity
  • Violence
  • Dignity

• I began at some point to understand the whole idea of accountability and responsibility and leadership, and I think that was something that really birthed something in me, where I knew I wanted to be part of a larger equation in our society.

  

  Wes Moore
  • Thinking
  • Society
  • Ideas

• There are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there's an obligation for all of us individually as well as collectively to take responsibility to make those values lived.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Culture
  • Responsibility

• All political parties share in the responsibility to rid our society of anti-Semitism, but we cannot achieve that objective with political posturing or empty promises of action never to be fulfilled.

  

  Ephraim Mirvis
  • Society
  • Political
  • Action

• Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

  

  Seth Berkley
  • Responsibility
  • Vision
  • Leadership

• I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them.

  

  Dorothy Allison
  • People
  • Responsibility

• We've gotten so much as a result of the changes. Part of our responsibility is to give something back to the game and the girls who are just starting to play.

  

  Carla Overbeck
  • Girl
  • Sports
  • Leadership

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