Responsibility Quotes

Responsibility educates.
Wendell Phillips

It's a big responsibility dating me. Because I come with a little bit of baggage, you know?
Demi Lovato

Dating, Big, Bit

I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.
Maynard James Keenan

Sense, Pessimist

For the first time in my life I'm really happy to be unattached because I realise there is so much responsibility to having a partner.
Amanda Seyfried

Life, Time, Happy

But 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 Bush

Money, Government, Society

Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.
Shania Twain

Mom, Keep, Caring

Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the child's background and health to assure the best fit and be prepared.
Pat Robertson

Health, Best, Parents

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
Hermann Hesse

Cannot, Leader, Themselves

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.
Toni Morrison

Leader, Somebody

We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.
Billy Corgan

Time, Long, Social

Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.
Billy Corgan

Music, Attitude, Fight

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.
Dalton Trumbo

Government, Business, Job

The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?
Dan Quayle

Faith, Said, Maturity

I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.
Edward Zwick

Life, Blame, Find

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Jerome K. Jerome

End, Sense, Noise

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
W. H. Auden

Poetry, American, Whole

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.
Alfred Adler

Truth, Freedom, Him

Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.
James Cromwell

Life, Care, Obligation

You learn to rely on a few basic movements and use your voice to the greatest extent possible to convey your emotions. So there was a technical challenge there and a responsibility to create a character from behind the mask.
Helena Bonham Carter

Character, Greatest, Challenge

A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.
Ben Stein

Everything, Succeed, Plans

Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Respect, Society, May

Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility. Through collective action, they can leverage their dollars to combat the force of those investors who myopically pursue profits at the expense of the rest of society.
Simon Mainwaring

Society, Through, Social

More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance.
Simon Mainwaring

Work, Ethics, Issues

In the coming years, if not sooner, social media will become a powerful tool that consumers will aggressively use to influence business attitudes and force companies into greater social responsibility - and, I suggest, move us towards a more sustainable practice of capitalism.
Simon Mainwaring

Business, Powerful, Become

More brands are waking up to their social responsibility and doing good work through cause marketing campaigns. Yet too many still go about it the wrong way. I mean 'wrong' in two senses. Firstly, they are marketing ineffectively, and secondly, as a consequence their positive social impact is not maximized.
Simon Mainwaring

Work, Good, Positive

If a brand genuinely wants to make a social contribution, it should start with who they are, not what they do. For only when a brand has defined itself and its core values can it identify causes or social responsibility initiatives that are in alignment with its authentic brand story.
Simon Mainwaring

Start, Social, Story

Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.
James Cash Penney

Trust, Him, Sign

Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.
Matt Blunt

Home, Children, Cannot

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
Daniel Webster

God, Mind, Important

I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else.
Catherine Deneuve

Strong, True, Else

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