Responsibility Quotes

What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.

Gloria Anzaldua

Baby: an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.

Elizabeth Adamson

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

To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.

Fritz Perls

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

The most dangerous aspect of present - Day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.

Eugenio Montale

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Booker T. Washington

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

John Christian Bovee

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

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

Bob Dylan

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

John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Gerald W. Johnson

Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe.

Christine Lane

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

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

Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - - This is of the essence of leadership.

Theodore H. White, The Making of the President, 1960

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

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

You can delegate authority, but not responsibility.

Stephen W. Comiskey

With great power comes great responsibility.

Stan Lee, Spider - Man comic

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

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Louis

The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility.

Giosu, Borsi