Responsibility Quotes

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
-Abraham Lincoln

"You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

"Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors."
-Jonas Salk

"Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings."
-Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

"Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber."
-Frank Crane

"He is responsible because of the conspiracy and the plots for all that happened to the Jewish people-from the shores of the Arctic Ocean to the Aegean Sea, from the Pyrenees to the Urals."
-Gideon Hausner

"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."
-Joan Didion

"Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity."
-Nadine Gordimer

"My responsibility is always and everywhere the same: to see in my brother more even than the personality and manhood that are his. My task is always and everywhere the same: to see Christ himself."
-Trevor Huddleston

"It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action."
-Stanley Milgram

"Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility."
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility."
-George Orwell

"The price of greatness is responsibility."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
-George Bernard Shaw

"There will always be dissident voices heard in the land expresing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side, and seeking influence without responsibility."
-John F. Kennedy

"Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Nixon and the White House."
-John F. Kennedy

"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up."
-John Lennon

"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."
-Bob Dylan

"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
-Ronald Reagan

"Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it."
-Ayn Rand

"There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud."
-Milton Friedman

"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."
-Sigmund Freud

"It's almost as if legislators are outsourcing one of their primary duties of drafting laws, and they're allowing the private sector to take over that responsibility. This is a full-time Legislature. You'd think that would be something that, rather than give lobbyists the primary duty to draft legislation, our full-time legislators should be doing."
-Jay Heck

"These are the kind of films that are the responsibility of a festival."
-Peter Scarlet

"In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone."
-Geoffrey Fisher

"Monique handles responsibility well. She can narrow her focus without any difficulty, and her work ethic is always the same. She's a real gamer who has a history of coming through in the clutch."
-Coach Venus Taylor

"The bottom line is that the local government has the ultimate responsibility to its citizen's children."
-Mark Saunders

"Millions of dollars have been spent on these lawsuits (restricting casinos), and no one has stepped up and taken responsibility for paying the bills. The question is, who is paying for it."
-Tom Shields