Responsibility
By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.
Author: Wayne DyerTopics: Famous, Life, Responsibility
The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.
Author: Donald RumsfeldTopics: Famous, Government, Responsibility
Taking wickets isn’t just my job; it’s a responsibility.
Author: Harbhajan SinghTopics: Famous, Responsibility
A captain’s mindset should be to lead from the front, take responsibility for your actions, and inspire your team to greatness.
Author: Steve WaughTopics: Famous, Positive, Responsibility
Cricket is a team game, but there are moments when an individual has to stand up and take the responsibility.
Author: Ian BothamTopics: Famous, Positive, Responsibility
We have a responsibility to take care of the planet.
Author: Jane GoodallTopics: Famous, Positive, Responsibility
It’s a big responsibility dating me. Because I come with a little bit of baggage, you know?
Author: Demi LovatoTopics: Famous, Responsibility
Creativity is a gift. It’s also a responsibility.
Author: StingTopics: Creativity, Famous, Responsibility
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Author: Winston ChurchillTopics: Famous, Greatest, Responsibility
Our responsibility is to rally and lead the whole party and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups, take up this historic baton and continue working hard for the great renewal of the Chinese nation, so that we will stand rock firm in the family of nations and make fresh and greater contribution to mankind.
Author: Xi JinpingTopics: Famous, Nation, Responsibility
Every player has to help their teammate. We have to share the responsibility.
Author: Unai EmeryTopics: Responsibility, Teammates
Good leaders do not make excuses, they take responsibility.
Author: J. C. WattsTopics: Excuses, Famous, Responsibility
Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
Author: J. C. WattsTopics: Faith, Family, Famous, Hard Work, Responsibility, School
Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.
Author: Thomas E. MannTopics: Election, Famous, Feelings, Implementation, Life, Meaningful, Officials, Outcome, Responsibility
We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.
Author: J. B. PriestleyTopics: Famous, Members, Responsibility
We’ve matured musically, as well as in the way we think. We’ve also developed a higher sense of responsibility. This has refined us and these developments are really being reflected in our music and our dance.
Author: J-HopeTopics: Dance, Development, Famous, Music, Refined, Responsibility, Think
I’m not trying to be the best, I’m trying to be different.
Author: J BalvinTopics: Famous, Giving back, Important, Meaningful, Responsibility, Success
Our dreams of a pure virtue are dissolved in a situation in which it is possible to exercise the virtue of responsibility toward a community of nations only by courting the prospective guilt of the atomic bomb.
Author: Reinhold NiebuhrTopics: Community, Dreams, Exercise, Responsibility, Situation
Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility.
Author: Reinhold NiebuhrTopics: Except, Life, Meaning, Responsibility
Oh, these cursed phrases, these lies of language, under which people with meat in their bellies and whole shirts on their backs shelter themselves, and evade the responsibility of their brothers and sisters, empty of belly and without whole shirts on their backs.
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Language, Responsibility, Shelter, Shirts
The Writer’s Oath I promise solemnly: 1. to write as often and as much as I can, 2. to respect my writing self, and 3. to nurture the writing of others. I accept these responsibilities and shall honor them always.
Author: Gail Carson LevineTopics: Famous, Honor, Promise, Responsibility, Self
If there is a devil at work then he rests in institutions and not in individuals. Because the beauty of institutions is that any individual can abdicate responsibility. The assumption that we’re all utterly powerless, that’s the devil at work
Author: Thom YorkeTopics: Devil, Famous, Individual, Institutions, Powerless, Responsibility, Work
The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to marry a guy who is going to take at least half the responsibility for the house and kids – and sometimes more than half.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Career, Family, Famous, House, Kids, Responsibility, Success, Women
There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.
Author: J. K. RowlingTopics: Famous, Meaningful, Responsibility
I feel that I’m very blessed. But with great blessings come great responsibility.
Author: Kanye WestTopics: Famous, Feeling, Great, Inspirational, Responsibility
First of all, everyone must acknowledge and feel that child slavery still exists in the world, in its ugliest face and form. And this is an evil, which is crime against humanity, which is intolerable, which is unacceptable and which must go. That sense of recognition must be developed first of all. And secondly there is a need of higher amounts of political will. There is a need of higher amount of corporate engagement, and the engagement of the public towards it. So, everybody has a responsibility to save and protect the children on this planet.
Author: Kailash SatyarthiTopics: Children, Crimes, Evil, Exist, Famous, Intolerable, Political, Political Will, Responsibility, Slavery, World
It’s not my responsibility to write plays about the way the world should be
Author: Theresa RebeckTopics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Responsibility, Way, World
Wherever we play, the batsmen have bigger responsibility in ODI and T20 formats to set up big targets and give that cushion to bowlers.
Author: K. L. RahulTopics: Famous, Play, Responsibility, Targets
Teams expect a lot from an opening batsman. It is a lot of responsibility.
Author: K. L. RahulTopics: Expectations, Famous, High-pressure, Impactful Roles, Opening, Responsibility, Teams
Papa wasn’t man enough, couldn’t stand up to his responsibilities. Instead of taking care of me, he’d rather live lavishly.
Author: Tupac ShakurTopics: Care, Enough, Famous, Feelings, Life, Responsibility, Stand
As an opening batsman, it’s my responsibility to spend as much time in the middle as I can and try and get big scores in the first innings so that we don’t have to bat in the second innings.
Author: K. L. RahulTopics: Famous, Innings, Middle, Opening, Responsibility, Score, Setting targets, Strategy, Trying
Captaincy is a responsibility that I take seriously, and always try to lead by example.
Author: K. L. RahulTopics: Example, Famous, Leading, Responsibility, Trying
I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don’t represent the entire gay community because it’s a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
Author: K. D. LangTopics: Community, Famous, Influence, Responsibility, Self-Awareness, Society, Vast
To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by “society”.
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Destroy, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Personal, Responsibility, Role, Treat, Unfair, Visions
You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization – including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain – without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Civilization, Color, Consequences, Famous, Including, Intelligentsia, Meaningful, Requirement, Responsibility, Ruinous, Work
grThe great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one’s own behavior
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Escapes, Famous, Feelings, Great, Life, Meaningful, Responsibility
I’m a free safety. The one responsibility I have is making the play, really. So I take those chances.
Author: Ha Ha Clinton-DixTopics: Chances, Famous, Making, Play, Responsibility, Safety
To Serve the God of Love one must be free, one must face the terrible responsibility of the decision to love in spite of all unworthiness whether in oneself or in one’s neighbor
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Decision, Despite, Face, Famous, Feelings, Free, God, Life, Love, Meaningful, Neighbor, Responsibility, Serve, Terrible, Unworthiness
We do not exist for ourselves
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Connection, Empathy, Exist, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Ourselves, Purpose, Responsibility, Service
Each is responsible for his own actions.
Author: H. L. HuntTopics: Action, Famous, Inspirational, Motivational, Responsibility
The truth is that fear cannot coexist with love. Therefore, we must learn how to dissolve all boundaries with love by taking responsibility for our own energy. In doing so, we’ll raise the energy around us.
Author: Gabrielle BernsteinTopics: Energy, Famous, Fear, Inspirational, Learning, Love, Responsibility, Truth
Only aim to do a duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Credit, Duty, Fail, Famous, Feelings, Honesty, Life, Mankind, Meaningful, Morality, Recognition, Respect, Responsibility, Service
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Careful, Conduct, Consistency, Doing, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Morality, Perform, Positive, Public, Responsibility, Things, Visibility, Watching, World
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Control, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Learning, Meaningful, Money, Patience, Prudence, Responsibility, Saving
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Action, Efficiency, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Motivation, Now, Prioritizing, Procrastinating, Productivity, Responsibility, Time, Today, Tomorrow
Take care of your cents; dollars will take care of themselves.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Dollars, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Management, Meaningful, Positive, Prioritizing, Responsibility, Wealth
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Civilization, Expect, Expectation, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Free, Ignorant, Informed, Knowledge, Meaningful, Nation, Never, Reality, Responsibility, State
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Alone, Democracy, Famous, Feelings, Government, Leadership, Meaningful, Participation, Political system, Responsibility, Rulers, Safe, Trust, Trusted
I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Famous, Feelings, Government, Happiness, Inspirational, Labors, Meaningful, Positive, Predict, Pretense, Prevention, Responsibility, Under, Wasting
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Care, Destruction, Duty, Famous, Feelings, Good, Government, Happiness, Human Life, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Objects, Positive, Priority, Responsibility
The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the worldworl
Author: Thomas A. EdisonTopics: Contributions, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Giving, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Obligation, Owes, Responsibility, Service, Something, World
My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand
Author: Thich Nhat HanhTopics: Action, Consequences, Escapes, Famous, Feelings, Impact, Life, Meaningful, Ownership, Responsibility, Stand
My actions are my only true belongings
Author: Thich Nhat HanhTopics: Action, Famous, Feelings, Influence, Integrity, Life, Meaningful, Ownership, Responsibility, True
The best thing about having my very first audition lead me to an Oscar nomination means that I don’t have to struggle the rest of my career to be nominated for an Oscar, to prove that I’m a great actress, because I’ve already done it. Now I can do things that just make me happy.
Author: Gabourey SidibeTopics: Famous, Happy, Nomination, Oscar, Reality, Responsibility, Role, Struggle, Things
The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol.
Author: Robert Baden-PowellTopics: Famous, Good, Individual, Patrol, Responsibility
One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes, and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Author: Eleanor RooseveltTopics: Choices, Expressed, Famous, Inspirational, Philosophy, Responsibility, Words
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Author: G. M. TrevelyanTopics: Action, Famous, Inspirational, Readiness, Responsibility, Thoughts
One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Author: Eleanor RooseveltTopics: Choices, Expressed, Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful, Motivational, Philosophy, Responsibility, Words
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.
Author: Eleanor RooseveltTopics: Famous, Freedom, Huge, Human, Human Being, Inspirational, Meaningful, Motivational, Requirement, Responsibility
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Author: Eleanor RooseveltTopics: Choices, Die, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Lives, Long, Long term, Meaningful, Ourselves, Responsibility, Run, Shape
My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I’m conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words.
Author: ShakiraTopics: Famous, Meaningful, Responsibility
The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.
Author: Brian TracyTopics: Experiences, Happiest, Inspirational, Life, Natural, People, Positive, Responsibility, World
It is our responsibility to leave the people of the future a free hand.
Author: Richard P. FeynmanTopics: Famous, Leave, People, Responsibility
You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on the choices you make.
Author: Brian TracyTopics: Choices, Famous, Individual Choices, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Responsibility, Responsible, Success, Successful, Ultimate
Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
Author: Richard P. FeynmanTopics: Improve, Learn, Responsibility, Solutions
The key responsibility of leadership is to think about the future. No one else can do it for you.
Author: Brian TracyTopics: Critical thinking, Experiences, Forward-Thinking, Inspirational, leader, Leaders, Leadership, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Responsibilities, Responsibility, Self Belief, Sense Of Responsibility, Think, Thinker
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
Author: Richard P. FeynmanTopics: Human, Improve, Problems, Responsibility, Solutions, Unreasonable
The number 7 shirt is an honor and a responsibility. I hope it brings me a lot of luck.
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Honor, Hope, Hope for peace, Lesson, Letting go, Life, Loyalty, Luck, Meaningful, Responsibility, Shirts
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.
Author: Richard P. FeynmanTopics: Famous, People, Responsibility
If it’s never our fault, we can’t take responsibility for it. If we can’t take responsibility for it, we’ll always be its victim.
Author: Richard BachTopics: Famous, Fault, Responsibility, Victim
Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if he is interested in the state of Israel. It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen.
Author: Golda MeirTopics: Famous, Favor, Interested, Israel, Refugee, Responsibility, Speak
He who has the knowledge has the responsibility to impart it to the students.
Author: Rabindranath TagoreTopics: Famous, Knowledge, Responsibility, Students
Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.
Author: Eckhart TolleTopics: Consequences, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Responsibility
No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone’s work assignment and responsibility.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Carrying, Decision, Famous, Meaningful, Responsibility
Around here, I am only the guy who is responsible. If these men don’t know what to do when they run into an enemy in the jungle, I’m too far away to tell them. My job is to make sure they know. What they do depends on the situation which only they can judge. The responsibility is always mine, but the decision lies with whoever is on the spot.” In.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Depends, Enemy’s, Famous, Jungle, Meaningful, Responsibility, Responsible, Situations
The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Famous, Institutional, Managers, Master, Meaningful, Responsibility
The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you first come to work you know absolutely nothing. School isn’t preparation for work and never was.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Famous, Function, Industries, Meaningful, Never, Nothing, Preparation, Responsibility
It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, The enterprise must demand it of him.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Famous, Matter, Meaningful, Responsibility
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Famous, Meaningful, Responsibility, Work
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Famous, Meaningful, Power, Rank, Responsibility
I believe that to meet the challenges of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for oneself, one’s own family, or nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.
Author: Dalai LamaTopics: Challenges, Famous, Humankind, Meaningful, Responsibility, Survival
We who are saved find rest in Jesus. Those who are not saved will receive rest if they come to Him, for here He promises to “give” it. Nothing can be freer than a gift; let us gladly accept what He gladly gives. You are not to buy it, nor to borrow it, but to receive it as a gift.
Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Gift, Giving up, Glad, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Relief, Religion, Religious Differences, Responsibility, Rest
As people alive today, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is, therefore, part of our responsibility toward others to ensure that the world we pass on is as healthy, if not healthier than we found it.
Author: Dalai LamaTopics: Alive, Environment, Famous, Healthy, Meaningful, Responsibilities, Responsibility
Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.
Author: Charles R. Swindoll
Topics: Happen, Happenings, Inadequate, Increasing, Incredible, Little Things, Lived, Long-Term Perspective, Longer, Longing, Percent, Perception, Response, Responsibility
God never asked us to meet life’s pressures and demands on our own terms or by relying upon our own strength. Nor did He demands that we win His favor by assembling an impressive portfolio of good deeds. Instead, He invites us to enter His rest.
Author: Charles R. Swindoll
Topics: Deeds, Demanding, Designs, Desire, Desire for Goodness, God, God willing, Inner Strength, Inner Struggles, Responsibility, Rest
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
Author: George Bernard ShawTopics: Famous, Forward-Thinking, Inspirational, Learning, Past experiences, Responsibility, Responsible choices
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Author: George Bernard ShawTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Liberty, Mean, Responsibility
I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.
Author: Mother TeresaTopics: Famous, Individuals, Love, Meaningful, Person, Responsibility, Time
That’s home. That’s us. It underscores the responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.
Author: Carl Sagan
Topics: Comparing, Compassion, Home, Kind, Kindness, Preservation, Preserve, Response, Responsibility, Rule, Rules to live by
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man… It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.
Author: C. S. LewisTopics: Comparision, Competition, Man, Pleasure, Pride, Proud, Responsibility, Rest, Something
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
Author: George EliotTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Responsibility, Tolerance
If you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life
Author: Bruce LeeTopics: Famous, Life, Limitation, Physical Life, Responsibility, Rest
Your duty is, as ferre as I can gesse.
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerTopics: Duty, Famous, Far, Guessing, Inspirational, Responsibility
You 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.
Author: Marie CurieTopics: Famous, Humanity, Improvement, Improving, Inspirational, Meaningful, Responsibility, World
I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand ‘I have a problem, it is the Government’s job to cope with it!’ or ‘I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!’ ‘I am homeless, the Government must house me!’ and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first… There is no such thing as society. There is living tapestry of men and women and people and the beauty of that tapestry and the quality of our lives will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and each of us prepared to turn round and help by our own efforts those who are unfortunate.
Author: Margaret ThatcherTopics: Children, Famous, Government, House, Inspirational, Job, Meaningful, People, Problem, Problems, Responsibility, Society, Tapestry, Understand, Unfortunate
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking
Author: Ayn RandTopics: Devotion, Great, Moral, Response, Responsibility, Truth
I put confidence in the American people, in their ability to sort through what is fair and what is unfair, what is ugly and what is unugly.
Author: George W. BushTopics: Capabilities, Confidence, Famous, Informed decisions, Inspirational, Judgments, Responsibility, Trust
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
Author: Mao ZedongTopics: Dominant, Famous, Historical, Identify, Leadership, Meaningful, Responsibility, Work
Rest, let your body relax and grow. Work up gradually and don’t blow it. Sometimes you can do so much your mind gets sick of it. Remember what I said earlier. Keep your mind hungry. People have a tendency to overdo things at first and then slack off.
Author: Arnold SchwarzeneggerTopics: Minded, Responsibility, Rest, Sometimes, Work
If you’re sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.
Author: Oprah WinfreyTopics: Help, Responsibility, Somebody, Waiting, Wasting
Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life
Author: Norman CousinsTopics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Quality, Responsibility
The end of the world is on people’s minds. We have the power to destroy or save ourselves, but the question is what do you do with that responsibility.
Author: Nicolas CageTopics: Famous, People, Responsibility, World
Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.
Author: Nicolas CageTopics: Ability, Action, Famous, Responsibility
Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amount of privilege and therefore we have a huge amount of responsibility. We live in free societies where we are not afraid of the police; we have extraordinary wealth available to us by global standards. If you have those things, then you have the kind of responsibility that a person does not have if he or she is slaving seventy hours a week to put food on the table; a responsibility at the very least to inform yourself about power. Beyond that, it is a question of whether you believe in moral certainties or not.
Author: Noam ChomskyTopics: Extraordinary, Global, Moral, Police, Privileges, Responsibility, Slaving, Wealth
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.
Author: Noam ChomskyTopics: Intellectuals, Lies, Responsibility, Truth
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
Author: Les BrownTopics: Ability, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Responsibility
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
Author: Les BrownTopics: Dream, Famous, Hunger, Inspirational, Responsibility, Yourself
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.
Author: Benjamin FranklinTopics: Citizen, Responsibility
I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well, but is intensely rewarding. Particularly the chance to help draw out the best in young actors.
Author: Angelina JolieTopics: Famous, Freedom, Life, Particular, Responsibility
To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.
Author: Leonard CohenTopics: Experiences, Famous, Heart, Inspirational, Open, Responsibility, Urgent
I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again
Author: Anais NinTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Responsibility, Rest
We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: Civilization, History, Iraq, Responsibility, United States
I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: Famous, Life, Limitation, Limited, Meaningful, Operation, Responsibilities, Responsibility, Troops
You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: Control, Famous, President, Responsibilities, Responsibility, Responsible
All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: Families, Famous, Immigrants, Responsibilities, Responsibility, Rewards
I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: Consideration, Famous, Fight, Inspirational, Meaningful, Positive, President, Responsibilities, Responsibility, United States
It’s time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: Business, Demand, Famous, Foundation, Government, Meaningful, Positive, Responsibility
We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: Commitment, Experiences, Famous, Freedom, Freedoms, Inspirational, Meaningful, People, Positive, Recognised, Responsibilities, Responsibility
A theory which emphasizes individual control and responsibility denies a basic fact of human existence.
Author: B.F. SkinnerTopics: Experiences, Facts, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Responsibilities, Responsibility, Responsible, Resposible, Theory
We only get one planet. Humankind must become accountable on a massive scale for the wanton destruction of our collective home. Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Humanity, Humankind, Planet, Preserving, Protection, Responsibility
Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office
Author: AesopTopics: Ability, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Fool, Forever, Freedom, Give, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Respect, Responsibility
There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.
Author: Bill GatesTopics: Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful, Position, Responsibilities, Responsibility
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Author: Albert EinsteinTopics: Divine Love, Falling In Love, Famous, Feelings, Gravity, Human Love, Inspirational, Meaningful, Responsibilities, Responsibility, Responsible, True, True Love, Unconditional Love
The best people need little supervision.
Author: W. Edwards DemingTopics: Decision, Dedication, Goal, Performance, Responsibility, Role, Rule, Skilled