Responsibility Quotes

I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, speech? in 1994

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, Speech for the Dallas Trade Mart which was never delivered.

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

John Haldane

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this Deny your responsibility.

Lyndon B. Johnson

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

Bob Dylan

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

G. M. Trevelyan

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

John Lennon

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Gerald W. Johnson

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

Michael Korda

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.

Oliver L. North

In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.

James Agee

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less.

John Christian Bovee

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far - Reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Stanley Milgram

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

Max De Pree

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.

William John Bennett

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.

Kahlil Gibran

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Marie Curie

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty.

John D. Rockefeller Jr.

A man who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A man who merely likes exercising authority usually loses it.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

I believe that every right implies a responsibility every opportunity an obligation every possession a duty.

John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

Oscar Arias Sanchez

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

George Bernard Shaw