2,642 Quotes About Responsibility

He'd been generous, yes, but lots of people are generous; what made him different was the fact that he'd taken responsibility for me.

remember you must always put your country first, your family second, and yourself third.

Like you, I think of myself as many things, as if the thinking made it so. In the meantime, while I think - while you think, while we think - our actions and inactions create and destroy the world.

There was a social responsibility to characterize High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) so that the rest of the damaged Mauna Kea workers would know to inform their doctors about how to diagnose and treat the wide range of illnesses and diseases that it causes.

I would gladly take the responsibility of my words, of making more of them, of making volumes of them for the rest of my existence.

The prayers of most religions generally praise and thank the gods involved, either out of general piety or in the hope that he or she will take the hint and start acting responsibly.

Freedom of speech does not guarantee you a platform from which to air your opinions. You may hold trenchant views on a number of subjects but the fact that The Times won't print your ruminations doesn't mean you are being oppressed...While freedom of speech gives you the right to dissent and, yes, to offend, it does not give you the right to abuse.

In a civilized world, nobody is master to nobody, but everybody ought to be responsible for everybody.

I wish I knew where this journey will take us, but I don't. All I know is that this is bigger than me, my self-doubt, or any crisis of conscience. I now truly realize how profoundly insignificant I am compared to all this. Why does that make me feel so much better?