Quotes about responsibility
responsibility government democracy
A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over. Earl Warren
responsibility littles authority
To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced. Dean Acheson
responsibility athlete pride
I'm continuing to prepare very well because I have my responsibility and my (pride) as a man and an athlete. Dayron Robles
responsibility thinking entrepreneur
I think a great entrepreneur is learning every day. An entrepreneur is somebody that doesn't take no for an answer - they're going to figure something out. They also take responsibility. They don't blame anybody else. And they're dreamers in one sense but they're also realistic and they take affordable steps when they can. Daymond John
responsibility giving mind
When we give our minds and our responsibility away, we give our lives away. If enough of us do it, we give the world away and that is precisely what we have been doing throughout known human history. This is why the few have always controlled the masses. David Icke
responsibility honor
It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility. David Duchovny
responsibility tomorrow-will-be-better plant
If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll get good things back. That's part of our responsibility as entertainers. Ben Vereen
responsibility together hierarchy
Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy. Barney Frank
responsibility character theatre
What I like about theatre is the responsibility you have with your character. Audrey Tautou
responsibility safe settling
And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe. Audre Lorde
responsibility cry share
And where the words of women are crying to be heard, we must each of us recognize our responsibility to seek those words out, to read them and share them and examine them in their pertinence to our lives. Audre Lorde
responsibility arena standing
Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose. Audre Lorde
responsibility army fighting
It would be easier to fight the Russian army, and it would give me great satisfaction, but I have a responsibility to my people Aslan Maskhadov
responsibility decision matter
Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions. Antony Jay
responsibility law people
It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility entails. Will they never realize that they do not eliminate these consequences but merely pass them along to other people? The result is one injustice the more and one moral the less. Frederic Bastiat
responsibility government names
[Socialists claim] that we reject fraternity, solidarity, organization, and association; and they brand us with the name of individualists. We can assure them that what we repudiate is not natural organization, but forced organization. It is not free association, but the forms of association that they would impose upon us. It is not spontaneous fraternity, but legal fraternity. It is not providential solidarity, but artificial solidarity, which is only an unjust displacement of responsibility. Socialism . . . confounds Government and society. Frederic Bastiat
responsibility organization unity
But we assure the socialists that we repudiate only forced organization, not natural organization. We repudiate the forms of association that are forced upon us, not free association. We repudiate forced fraternity, not true fraternity. We repudiate the artificial unity that does nothing more than deprive persons of individual responsibility. We do not repudiate the natural unity of mankind under Providence. Frederic Bastiat
responsibility my-time manage
With my responsibilities comes having to manage my time more efficiently. Derek Fisher
responsibility accountability lockers
There's responsibility, but there's also accountability. You have to be accountable for your actions. You have to stand at your locker when things are going bad. Derek Jeter
responsibility simple waiting
When you hit send on a text or tweet, you lose ownership of it - but you don't lose responsibility. Every text you have sent may have been saved and could be out there waiting to be used in ways you didn't imagine. Even the most simple of posts can be used out of context, often unintentionally, and change your future. Mark Cuban
responsibility law vision
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law. Madeleine Albright
responsibility people succeed
Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility. Madeleine Albright
responsibility people world
We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful. Anne Sullivan
responsibility games teammate
I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing. Cal Ripken, Jr.
responsibility athletic association
I do not have any official responsibilities related to the Australian Olympic Committee or the Federation of Athletic Associations since I am too busy with my private business. Cathy Freeman
responsibility aquariums accountability
Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation. Carl Levin
responsibility opposites evil
It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has an ineradicable tendency to get rid of everything he does not know and does not want to know about himself by foisting it off on somebody else... Nothing has a more diverse and alienating effect upon society than this moral complacency and lack of responsibility, and nothing promotes understanding and rapprochement more than the mutual withdrawal of projections. Carl Jung
responsibility men painful
The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life. Carl Jung
responsibility threat veto
We've got a veto threat but we've also got a responsibility to the American taxpayer, Frank Murkowski
responsibility tomorrow failing
Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular. Bernard Baruch
responsibility thinking order
I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don't have to pay our bills. Carol Moseley Braun
responsibility numbers able
I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia's number one servant. Servant - one who serves the nation, not one whom the nation serves. Carlos Mesa
responsibility sorting substitutes
The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility. Charles Handy