Famous Quotes on Responsibility

Over 15,000 quotations and famous quotes.

QuoteWorld :: Virtue :: Responsibility Search in this category

1 2 3 4 Next >>
Quote	Author	Rating	Rate
"My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that 'Carpe Diem' is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds-for who can trust to tomorrow?"	George Gordon Byron
"A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such 'breaks' are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready."	Lawrence Downs
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility; never an opportunity."	Kahlil Gibran
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."	Kahlil Gibran
"Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults."	Eric Hoffer
"At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted."	Eric Idle
"We must exchange the philosophy of excuse--what I am is beyond my control--for the philosophy of responsibility."	Barbara Charline Jordan
"When at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each one of us-recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the state-our success or failure, in whatever office we may hold, will be measured by the answers to four questions-were we truly men of courage ... were we truly men of judgment ... were we truly men of integrity ... were we truly men of dedication?"	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"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
"The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority."	Stanley Milgram
"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
"Duty is what one expects from others."	Oscar Wilde
"When you blame others, you give up your power to change."	Author Unknown
"Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him."	Booker T. Washington
"Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility."	Michael Korda
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."	Galileo Galilei
"Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love."	Albert Einstein
"Character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs."	Joan Didion
"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life Is the source from which self-respect springs."	Joan Didion
"I do not feel obliged to believe that that same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use."	Galileo Galilei
1 2 3 4 Next >>

Browse Responsibility quotes by Author:

Abraham Lincoln	Albert Camus	Albert Einstein
Alexander Hamilton	Ambrose Bierce	Anthony M. Kennedy
Antonio Gramsci	Arbie M. Dale	Author Unknown
Barbara Charline Jordan	Barber B. Conable, Jr	Bill Maher
Booker T. Washington	Charles Mathias, Jr.	Christine Lane
Dietrich Bonhoeffer	Donald Robert Perry Marquis	Douglas Noel Adams
Elbert Hubbard	Eric Hoffer	Eric Idle
Eugenio Montale	Francisco "El Caudillo" Franco	Frank H. Crane
Galileo Galilei	George Burns	Georges Duhamel
George Gordon Byron	Gerald W. Johnson	Giosue Borsi
Harlan Ellison	Helen Merrell Lynd	Hillary Rodham Clinton
James Agee	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
Joan Didion	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John L. Casteel
J(ohn) Edgar Hoover	Kahlil Gibran	Lawrence Downs
Louis	Louis K. Anspacher	Lyndon Baines Johnson
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes	Marian Wright Edelman	Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr.
Mark McGee	Michael Korda	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Napolean Hill	Oliver L. North	Oscar Wilde
Paxton Blair	Peter F(erdinand) Drucker	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard David Bach	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Srully D. Blotnick
Stanley Milgram	Stephen Crane	Thomas Jefferson
Ursula K. LeGuin	William Gordon	William John Bennett