Responsibility Quotes - Page 2

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.

God created you to be in the world.
You are in the world to fulfil a specific mission.

I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.

To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."

[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs.

Still, he figured, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just got to run like hell after it's done.

you don't have to worry about burning bridges, if you're building your own

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

The story is about being loyal to the truth as a nation, that citizens of a democracy are collectively responsible for what their troops do in war, good or bad.

There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.

Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.

It is, in truth, our responsibility to understand our needs and to adjust our perceptions,thoughts, decisions, behaviors, and environments to reflect these needs. We can’t force others to change, but we can change ourselves.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball.

Authority is not a power, it is a responsibility.