The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.
O J SimpsonIt's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do -or don't do.
Simone De BeauvoirGovernment is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald ReaganI'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.
Thomas NagelSoftware companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet.
Tim Berners-LeeThe political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs.
Silvio BerlusconiWhatever happens, take responsibility.
Anthony RobbinsRank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Peter F DruckerFind your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
Gary SnyderResponsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fibre.
Frank CraneI understand it's my responsibility to uphold the spirit of the game
[on yet another fine for dissent - is he fit to captain?]
Ricky PontingMan must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
Albert Schweitzer When I was young, it was very exciting to have a thought that we can change the world if we all collaborated, but I think it's not just an artist's responsibility as I think we all have responsibilities to different things, whatever we choose in our lives.
Gates McFaddenAbsolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Henry AdamsIt'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter.
EminemAs a member of Congress, I believe it is the responsibility of those elected to represent the people at every level of government to ensure that our government works to ensure that every person who wants gainful employment has it.
Leonard BoswellYou 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 CurieOne can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it.
Benevenuto CelliniIn a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.
Geoffrey FisherBut without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.
Jeb BushResponsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
Ariel DorfmanIt's the responsibility of the media to look at the president with a microscope, but they go too far when they use a proctoscope.
Richard NixonBaby: An alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.
Elizabeth AdamsonWhat on earth is he going to get paid for? [on John Prescott keeping all his favours for zero departmental responsibility]
Kate HoeyResponsibility is the price of freedom.
Elbert HubbardThe first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
Max DepreeI feel a certain sense of responsibility, so I'm pretty vague when I get to sorcery. [On his books]
David EddingsYou cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our 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 CuriePower is only too happy to make football bear a diabolical responsibility for stupifying the masses
Jean BaudrillardAs human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
Arnold ToynbeeThis is about shifting habits and attitudes and asking people to take responsibility for what is in their coffee cup. The bottom line is that if farmers don’t get a fair price for their coffee they will starve.
Claire GooseCharacter isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
Jim RohnBut when reporters say to me I'm only doing this because it's my job... that's the same abdication of moral responsibility at the thin end of the wedge that in its most extreme and horrific version ends up with others being prepared to stand as a concentration camp guard.
Ken LivingstoneRadical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
Pope John Paul IIFriendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Kahlil GibranAs an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.
Al D'AmatoThe game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
Michael JordanI believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it.
Brendan FraserDon't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out.
Donald RumsfeldLife is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Anthony RobbinsAn individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.
Robert Baden-PowellI stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.
Grace AbbottA baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.
Ronald ReaganEvery right implies a responsibility. Every opportunity, an obligation. Every possession, a duty.
John D RockefellerPatriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill (The Colonel's Daughter)
Richard AldingtonSome pretty senior young individuals in and around the Cabinet should share the responsibility for talking up an election and referring publicly on the radio to where the risk lies.
David WinnickThe hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.
Nelson AlgrenI believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
Coretta KingWe have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on Earth to see it isn't ruined.
Allen JohnsonTo give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
Alan Paton
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