Explore Quotes on Responsibility

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

When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty.

I've worked on shows where the lead actor doesn't know their lines, doesn't care, and it affects everybody - the crew, the director, the other actors. It's definitely a responsibility.

Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.

You realise the responsibility of carrying a film on your shoulders when people are investing money in you and they recognise the hard work you have to put in.

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.

I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.

Everything changes for the better when you take ownership of your own problems.

I'm not going to just take office in January, I'm going to take responsibility.

Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country

We can have peace and brotherly love by accepting our responsibility to preserve freedom.

Taking responsibility means never blaming anyone else for anything you are being..... doing.... having, or feeling.

I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as whether to serve bagels or doughnuts at the department coffee hour.

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.

As for money and prestige, if one has an opportunity to make money and/or advance their position or place in life there can be a lot to weigh and consider, such as responsibilities, goals and objectives etc. We all make choices, deal with our sense of priorities, principles, ethics, morals, balancing, juggling, making compromises... or not! Ha!

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.