Responsibility Quotes

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

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

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

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.
Leon Kass

Life, Live, Care

The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy L. Smith

Accept, Ability, Measure

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

I do feel a lot of times like I'm out of my league with my kids in terms of what my responsibility is.
Louis C. K.

Kids, Times, Terms

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

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

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.
Robert Baden-Powell

Character, Training, Put

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.
Shawn Johnson

Life, Respect, Discipline

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Nothing, Conscience, Individual

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

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

It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.
David Duchovny

Marriage, Someone, Else

The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.
Garrett Hardin

Social, Create, Coercion

I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.
Annie Leibovitz

Care, Taken, Backyard

We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.
Daniel J. Boorstin

God, Making, Shifted

Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
Sally Ride

Woman, Special, American

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

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Women, Men, Equality

It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever.
Helena Bonham Carter

Change, Nice, Move

A new era of responsibility is here.
Valerie Jarrett

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
Philip Pullman

Love, Education, True

A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.
Knute Rockne

Greatest, Him, Sense

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

Succeed, Plans, Rid

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