Responsibility Quotes

The only society that works today is also one founded on mutual respect, on a recognition that we have a responsibility collectively and individually, to help each other on the basis of each other's equal worth. A selfish society is a contradiction in terms.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Tony Blair

At the heart of my politics has always been the value of community, the belief that we are not merely individuals struggling in isolation from each other, but members of a community who depend on each other, who benefit from each other's help, who owe obligations to each other. From that everything stems: solidarity, social justice, equality, freedom.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Tony Blair

Too many leaders act as if the sheep.. their people.. are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Ken Blanchard

You see a lot over 30 years and you try to be professional and responsible. A lot of the interviews you do can be very haunting.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Wolf Blitzer

I think what we try to do is bring the news to our viewers in a very comprehensive responsible way.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Wolf Blitzer

You tell the people the stories the best you know. If there is something you don't know, you be up front and make that clear. You always give the aggrieved party the chance to respond before you publish or go to air. That's just my kind of old-fashioned news values.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Wolf Blitzer

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Michael Bloomberg

Everybody makes business mistakes. I mean, I take the responsibility, and I did. I was the captain of the ship and I took that responsibility.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Alan Bond

America is an idea, but it's an idea that brings with it some baggage, like power brings responsibility. It's an idea that brings with it equality, but equality even though it's the highest calling, is the hardest to reach. The idea that anything is possible, that's one of the reasons why I'm a fan of America. It's like hey, look there's the moon up there, let's take a walk on it, bring back a piece of it. That's the kind of America that I'm a fan of.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Bono

I could never be a politician because I think I'm too selfish, and I think I like to have fun.. the right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Bono

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Andrew Carnegie

Great American power and responsibility are not unprecedented, and have been used with restraint and great benefit in the past. We have not assumed that super strength guarantees super wisdom, and we have consistently reached out to the international community to ensure that our own power and influence are tempered by the best common judgment.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Jimmy Carter

People would ask me how I could stand the long campaigning, how I could stand being charged with the responsibilities of a great nation, one of the most powerful and difficult jobs in the world. It wasn't any more difficult than picking cotton all day or shaking peanuts.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Jimmy Carter

Whenever a warrior decides to do something, he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does. No matter what he does, he must know first why he is doing it, and then he must proceed with his actions without having doubts or remorse about them.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Carlos Castaneda

You've got a job to do, and because you've got a job to do, you've got to focus on that, so you don't have time for personal considerations.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Dick Cheney

We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Dick Cheney

You really do think about it institutionally; this is your job, and to some extent you benefit from having a job to do at a moment like this. You have things that you have to make happen. And you don't have time for the emotional reaction that might otherwise occur if somebody was just sitting there watching these events unfold and had no responsibilities.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Dick Cheney

The price of greatness is responsibility.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Winston Churchill

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Bill Clinton

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Bill Clinton

The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Hillary Rodham Clinton

There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Hillary Rodham Clinton

I must confess that I've never trusted the Web. I've always seen it as a coward's tool. Where does it live? How do you hold it personally responsible? Can you put a distributed network of fiber-optic cable "on notice"? And is it male or female? In other words, can I challenge it to a fight?
-- Responsibility Quotes by Stephen Colbert

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Stephen Covey

Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define themselves as profit-making machines whose only reason for existing is to satisfy escalating expectation for immediate gain.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Peter Drucker

My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Albert Einstein

To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we cannot prevent war every nation will use every means that is at their disposal; and in spite of all promises they make, they will do it. At the same time, so long as war is not prevented, all the governments of the nations have to prepare for war, and if you have to prepare for war, then you are in a state where you cannot abolish war.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Albert Einstein

The international equity question arises from the costs of climate change itself and mitigation varying greatly across countries. It is affected by the historical responsibility for current greenhouse gas emissions, which countries which were not responsible for what’s in the atmosphere now think are very important. Currently rich countries don’t think those issues are very important.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Ross Garnaut

There is not going to be, we can be quite certain, there’s not going to be any action on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by China or India or Indonesia or Brazil unless all developed countries are making a major effort. It will still be a big job to get them in, even if we are all making the effort. But our making the effort is a necessary condition.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Ross Garnaut

We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software.. that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't get in the way of that dream.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Bill Gates

The scientists are virtually screaming from the rooftops now. The debate is over! There's no longer any debate in the scientific community about this. But the political systems around the world have held this at arm's length because it's an inconvenient responsibility, because they don't want to accept that it's a moral imperative.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Al Gore

I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it's important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Carlos Slim Helu

To my mind, you cannot speak about the need for leadership within our communities without being prepared to take on responsibility yourself. It’s not enough to point the finger at those who have let us down and to expect others to come forward and fix our problems. Nor can anyone afford to call themselves a leader unless they truly have the interests of our community at heart. Too many people like to think they are leaders and too many are identified by the media as leaders who are not really leaders at all.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Jackie Huggins

It's a very Aboriginal thing to do, to give younger people greater responsibilities within the community as they become able to take those responsibilities on. It is a culturally appropriate transfer of roles that involves respect in both directions.. from the younger to the older and the older to the younger.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Jackie Huggins

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Aldous Huxley

The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Mikhail Khodorkovsky

I take responsibility for what happened at Enron, both good and bad. But I cannot take responsibility for criminal conduct that I was unaware of.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Kenneth Lay

I threw my whole life and lived my life in a certain way to make sure that I would never violate any law.. certainly never any criminal laws.. and always maintained that most important to me was my integrity, was my character, were my values.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Kenneth Lay

Business social responsibility should not be coerced; it is a voluntary decision that the entrepreneurial leadership of every company must make on its own.
-- Responsibility Quotes by John Mackey

I became a vegan and at the same time I realized, gosh, Whole Foods has got to create a higher standard here. I think it will ultimately be a good business decision because I think our customers expect us, want us to pave this path.
-- Responsibility Quotes by John Mackey

If you have a few hundred followers and you let some of them molest children, they call you a cult leader. If you have a billion, they call you Pope.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Bill Maher

I personally hold Tony Blair more responsible for this war (in Iraq) than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?
-- Responsibility Quotes by Michael Moore

We're starting with our own carbon footprint. Not nothing. But much of what we're doing is already, or soon will be, little more than the standard way of doing business. We can do something that's unique, different from just any other company. We can set an example, and we can reach our audiences. Our audience's carbon footprint is 10,000 times bigger than ours. That's the carbon footprint we want to conquer.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Rupert Murdoch

Becoming carbon neutral is only the beginning. The climate problem will not be solved by one company reducing its emissions to zero, and it won't be solved by one government acting alone. The climate problem will not be solved without mass participation by the general public in countries around the globe.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Rupert Murdoch

News Corporation, today, reaches people at home and at work... when they're thinking... when they're laughing... and when they are making choices that have enormous impact. The unique potential.. and duty.. of a media company are to help its audiences connect to the issues that define our time.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Rupert Murdoch

We need to push ourselves to make as many reductions as possible in our own energy use first.. and that takes time. But we must do this quickly.. the climate will not wait for us.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Rupert Murdoch

We're not a manufacturer, or an airline, but we do use energy. Printing and publishing newspapers, producing films, broadcasting television signals, operating 24-hour newsrooms. It all adds carbon to the atmosphere.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Rupert Murdoch

Climate change and energy use are global problems. News Corp is a global company. Our operations affect the environment all over the world.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Rupert Murdoch

I have to admit that, until recently, I was somewhat wary of the (global) warming debate. I believe it is now our responsibility to take the lead on this issue.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Rupert Murdoch

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Dr Phil

We must never forget our responsibilities as politicians to our country and its citizens. We must always remain humble before our people.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Angela Merkel

The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Angela Merkel

If you know what's going on and know how society can be improved and happiness advanced, you tend to focus on how to get things done that will help health, safety, opportunity, justice, accountability of powerful institutions to the people they are supposed to serve.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Ralph Nader

It's hard to do it because you have got to look people in the eye and tell them they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's going to want to do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country (USA), you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Bill O'Reilly

I'm calling for all responsible Americans to fight back and punish Pepsi for using a man who degrades women, who encourages substance abuse, and does all the things that hurt particularly the poor in our society. I'm calling for all Americans to say, hey Pepsi, I'm not drinking your stuff. You want to hang around with Ludacris (a rap singer that Pepsi planned to use for advertising), you do that, I'm not hanging around with you. Am I wrong to do that?
-- Responsibility Quotes by Bill O'Reilly

We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Vladimir Putin

We've poured our poisons into the world as though it were a bottomless pit.. and we go on gobbling them up. It's hard to imagine how the world could survive another century of this abuse, but nobody's really doing anything about it. It's a problem our children will have to solve, or their children.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Daniel Quinn

I came to realize that my money problems, worries, and shortages largely began and ended with the person in my mirror. I realized also that if I could learn to manage the character I shaved with every morning, I would win with money.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Dave Ramsey

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
-- Responsibility Quotes by John D. Rockefeller

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit.. a reputation, character.
-- Responsibility Quotes by John D. Rockefeller

Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals, the society in which they live and the economy in which they work. Most critically, our responsibility in this parliament is how that power is used: whether it is used for the benefit of the few or the many.

-- Responsibility Quotes by Kevin Rudd

I'm not perfect, I'm not an angel, but I try to live a certain way because it brings honour and respect to my mother. I tell people that when they look at me, they're looking at nothing but a big, overgrown, tough mama's boy. That's who I am.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Mr T

I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Ivanka Trump

The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Sun Tzu

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Oprah Winfrey

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Oprah Winfrey

I didn't want to say "No" because I didn't want people to think I'm not nice. And that, to me, has been the greatest lesson of my life: to recognize that I am solely responsible for it, and not trying to please other people, and not living my life to please other people, but doing what my heart says all the time.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Oprah Winfrey

It is a fact that, in the West, we live in a capitalist society, but that does not mean that we cannot be guided by the idea of a social conscience in our work. Yes, fashion design requires consumers to consume, but we can do our bit for society by running our companies in a socially responsible way, and by creating products that promote respect for social and environmental issues. There is also the possibility for power and influence to be a force for change.
Responsibility Quotes Giorgio Armani

The 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.
-- Responsibility Quotes by Silvio Berlusconi