Quotes on Responsibility

Rather than exist each day in some dull, boring habitual manner, move into action on a big idea. Everyone is on the brink of possibility. Your responsibility is to discover what that possibility is for you. Ideas can turn you on, they can wind you up. The right idea can and will add a new dimension to your life.

We have a responsibility to look after our planet. It is our only home.

We are all inspired by the incredible stories of handicapped people who write novels with their toes, cancer victims who run marathons for cancer research, bereaved parents who set up memorial funds for their lost children. How much easier is it for most of us to be small heroes simply by taking responsibility for our daily lives and transcending our ordinary obstacles?

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

I believe that to meet the challenge of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. We must all learn to work not just for our own self, family, or nation but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace, the equitable use of natural resources, and through concern for future generations, the proper care of the environment.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

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.

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

Be active! Take on responsibility! Work for the things you believe in. If you do not, you are surrendering your fate to others.

Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. One or the other must dominate. It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind. Here the law of HABIT will come to your aid. Form the habit of applying and using the positive emotions! Eventually, they will dominate your mind so completely, that the negatives cannot enter it.

The successful leader must be willing_x000D_ to assume responsibility for the mistakes_x000D_ and the shortcomings of his followers.

Nobody can do everything well, so learn how to delegate responsibility to other winners and then hold them accountable for their decisions.

The nature of freedom of choice is that some people will misuse their responsibility and hurt themselves in the process. We should do our best to educate them, but without diminishing choice for everyone else.

Privilege is here, and with privilege goes responsibility.

The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity.

Roger Corman exploited all of the young people who worked for him, but he really gave you responsibility and opportunity. So it was kind of a fair deal.

The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. don't take counsel of your fears.

It's my responsibility to walk around the hotel with a big smile on my face and not worry about what's happened in the last game.